US Senate Report: China Exports Its Digital Authoritarianism
China has risen as a key player in the digital domain. And it uses its influence to promote digital authoritarianism, which presents security, privacy, and human rights concerns for the free world. China is working to undermine our democratic institutions … Read More
Facebook Auditors Are Deeply Troubled
Facebook’s decisions over the last nine months have resulted in serious setbacks for civil rights and the prioritisation of free expression over all other values, such as equality and non-discrimination, is deeply troubling to the auditors. Further on privacy, groups … Read More
Privacy Could Be The First Casualty as Conferences Move Online
Massive Online Meetings (MOMs) have many new advantages but also many new tracking possibilities. Participants can potentially be tracked constantly through the whole duration of the event. By Ferenc Borondics & Jesse McCrosky The COVID-19 pandemic and our collective response … Read More
Graphic Recording: GDPR 2 Years After
At the end of May 202, the company Cleardox held a webinar looking into GDPR two years after. Jakob Kamby from Kammeradvokaten, Allan Frank from the Danish DPA, Stephen Alstrup, Superwiz/Copenhagen Univerisity and Pernille Tranberg, DataEthics.eu, participated. Here is the … Read More
Paper on Personal Data Platform Cooperatives
Paper. In the current data economy, very few people gain opportunities to control significant amounts of personal data. Control over personal data assets is distributed very unequally across social positions. Most users of are only able to provide consent for … Read More
Self- Sovereign Identity – A Possibility for More Data Control for Users
The internet was originally designed without an identity layer, which means, that even tough two devices can connect and interact online, it is difficult to guarantee that the one you are interacting with is who they claim to be. It … Read More
An eye on TikTok
During the last year the video sharing platform TikTok has become very popular. And according to Euronews TikTok’s popularity spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the app being the second-most installed application in April 2020 worldwide, with more than 107 … Read More
Global Advertisers Advised to ‘Do The Right Thing’
The World Federation of Advertisers, WFA, has launched a guide to its members on how they can go the data ethics way. It comes at a time where doing the right thing is becoming more of a must have that … Read More
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
(updates 29th April and 6th July below) 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 … Read More