Social Media and Traditional Media are Wonderfully Different – Keep Them That Way
Social media have a lot of issues to resolve, must live up to all laws and remove content that is unlawful. But social media is not traditional media, who is regulated by media law and press ethics. That is why … Read More
Pros and Cons of Corona Apps – A Webinar as Graphic Recording
Julia Sommer attended a webinar recently (May 15th 2020) discussing the Corona app. She summarised it in scribing. Click on the picture or the link under the picture to enlarge. Overview Sune Lehmann Rikke Frank Jørgensen Stinus Lindgren & Conclusion … Read More
Contact Tracing Apps are Not Just a Privacy Tech Issue. It’s a Question about Power
The inversion of democracy is a slow process of getting used to less and less freedom. In moments of crisis, there is a big risk that we make choices about adopting public health tech too hastily and without considerations as … Read More
How Google Keeps Publishers On A String
A new paper presents evidence to support a potential antitrust case against Google based on its apparent dominant position and alleged anti-competitive conduct in the digital advertising market in the US. It alleges that Google has used it … Read More
Essay: The Inseminated Will
While isolation preserves us from the pandemic, it makes us especially vulnerable to the effects of the infodemic. In a context that has brought our offline lives to the online wires, we are all exposed to being constantly tested by … Read More
An Analysis Facebook’s Data Ethics
By Lara Friedel, Bella Hintergard, Javier Lede Intro Algorithms are progressively shaping more and more aspects of our lives. The evolution of this issue leads the need to raise an urgent debate on the ethical use of data. We are … Read More
Press Release: White Paper on Data Ethics in Public Procurement
Public Institutions Can Lead the Way to Trustworthy AI Many European public institutions have installed or want to install a chatbot on their website to serve their citizens 24/7. But which service provider should they chose? There are a whole … Read More
Report Puts Human Rights at the Forefront of every Debate about Content Governance
Access Now, an international non-profit group that advocates for human rights online, have formulated 26 human right-centered recommendations for content governance, based on ideals of freedom, openness and democratic values. The following is an abstract of the problems identified by … Read More
The Theoretical Advantages and the Very Real Risks of App-Based Contact Tracing
By Francesco Lapenta, professor and director of John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies in Rome Analysis. The early response to a unique, but not unprecedented or unpredictable global biological crisis has been chaotic, profoundly un-collaborative and characterized … Read More
Amazon is Unbelievably Big and Powerful
Over a 100 years ago, the US company Pullman produced railroad cars and wanted to place a factory 10 miles outside the city center. It built a city around the factory premises, where all the workers could live and thus … Read More
“You Cannot Make a Technology Where One-Size-Fits All”
The Danish ARKEN Museum of Modern Art is not doing what many others are doing these days. Choosing new digital tools out of convenience and speediness. Arken has had ethical thoughts before choosing their new webinar tool in their digital … Read More
Ethical Software for Working at Home and Chatting With Your Family
Because of the Corona crisis, many are advised to stay at home and to avoid physical contact as much as possible. This means that we must avoid meeting up with co-workers, voluntary organisations or even friends and family. Instead we … Read More
Designing for Informed Consent Online That Works
This article is written by guest writer Annesophie Eve Hørlyk based on her master’s thesis that was published in the IT University of Copenhagen in January 2020. Informed consent is one of the primary means to protect internet users’ autonomy … Read More
Harari: Asking People to Choose Between Privacy and Health is a False Choice. We Can and Should Enjoy Both
Yuval Harari, historian and author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, has written an opinion in The Financial Times and everybody, especially politicians, should read it, as it is vital that we do not give up on our democratic rights even … Read More
The US and UK Might Fix the Internet for Kids
The internet was never designed with the best interest of the child in mind. Now it is time to fix it! This seems to be the philosophy behind to law proposals in the US and the UK. In the spring … Read More
It Is Risky Tracking Your Fertility
Is it okay to participate in the criticized ad tech system, when your service is dealing with such sensitive data as women’s fertility data? For the German-founded privacy-focused start-up Clue, it is a constant balance between being user-friendly and private … Read More
10 Tips for Organising a Good Webinar
Are you doing webinars? Here are advice on how to get a good start (and ethical tools to use). Many still feel uncomfortable with organizing webinars and prefer physical events. And agreed, there are things you cannot do in a … Read More
EUs Digital, AI and Data Strategy lacks ambition on ethics and Trustworthy AI
The strategy is ambitious on advancing the European AI uptake and taking back control over a European data space. But it lacks ambition when creating the conditions for a thriving ethical and trustworthy AI and data space. On 19th February … Read More
IKEA Gives Users Big Promises on Privacy and Data Ethics
One of the main role models within the new data ethics era might end up being the Swedish multinational Ingka Group, the strategic partner to IKEA. The company presented its thoughts for the first time at the World Economic Forum … Read More
Data Trusts Might Empower Consumers
Over the past couple of years experts have been pointing to ‘data trusts’ as a way to make a more democratic and fair infrastructure. Report after report have pointed to the need of trying this out. Despite wide endorsement of … Read More