The High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, which was appointed by the European Commission this summer has released the first draft of its Ethics Guidelines for the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this document, the independent group of 52 experts, … Read More
NEWS: The IEEE P7006™ – Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent can help develop AI agents to provide data vaults and algorithms allowing individual access and control of personal information. The growth of Artificial Intelligence creates a risk … Read More
by Francesco Lapenta, www.beingdigital.org Technologies have traditionally been approached as ancillary tools in the history of mankind. Means used to master nature and our environment, or tools used to enhance creativity and communication. This once clear distinction between us humans, … Read More
Chapter from the book Data Ethics – the New Competitive Advantage, published September 2016. “We’re concerned that the EC’s proposed data protection reforms will put European businesses at a competitive disadvantage in a global market, by placing restrictive controls and … Read More
New rules for the field of robotics to deal with ethics as well as liability in case of accidents caused by robots are currently being negotiated in the EU. In February, the EU Parliament adopted a resolution with recommendations to … Read More
NEWS: An extraordinary array of gadgets are on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, both technologies already on the market and ones that will be soon. The future is a more connected one based on a constant … Read More
Analysis. Laws are not enough. We need ethically driven innovation in the Age of Intelligent Machines, was one of the key conclusions of the CPDP. Here is first a summation of the intervention at one of the panels (Ethics, Observational … Read More
The initiative represents the collective input of over one hundred global thought leaders from academia, science, government and corporate sectors in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, ethics, philosophy, and policy. The purpose of is to ensure every technologist is educated, … Read More
When the new EU data protection regulation (GDPR) will come into force in 2018, businesses must be ready to implement new requirements regarding the data of their users. This includes responsibilities in relation to their younger users. With e.g. a … Read More
At the recent conference PrivacyCon held by the US Federal Trade Commission, 13 out of 19 papers and 23 out of 41 speakers had financial ties to Google. Only two papers included disclosure of an ongoing or past financial connection … Read More
Analysis: What is privacy ? When companies and governments emphasize their special role as protectors of the right to privacy, one might be led to believe that we in society have a shared understanding of what privacy is. But although … Read More
“The re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting with 700 participants into a wide-ranging “society conference”, with 7000 … Read More
ANALYSIS. Products in the digital economy must be ethical- and secure- by design. That is one of the major takeaways in a brand new global report from Accenture. The research company identifies five fundamental forces in today’s digital economy. Besides … Read More
ANALYSIS: This January the European Data Protection Supervisor presented his new “Ethics Advisory Group”. A group of experts that will help him “reconsider the ethical dimension of the relationships between human rights, technology, markets and business models and their implications … Read More
News: One of the biggest hacks this year was one that exposed the personal details of kids and their parents. The anonymous person who hacked the servers of the company Vtech that makes internet connected toys and gadgets, gained access … Read More
DataEthics’ international network and scope reach policy and tech events worldwide. We work constructively, sharing and collaborating with key competent partners. In 2016 the first DataEthics international events will take place in Italy and Denmark. Core International Team DataEthics is … Read More
(Image from the Ethics of Algorithms project, Center for Internet and Human Rights) Blog: How can we question the ethics of a service if we don’t have access to the details of how it is designed to act on data? … Read More
The Global Privacy as Innovation Network is DataEthics’ global policy network. It was established at the Privacy as Innovation II session at the 9th Internet Governance Forum September 2014.