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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

Move Slowly and Fix Things - Signal v. Noise

m.signalvnoise.com/move-slowly-and-fix-things/

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist – Tristan Harris

tristanharris.com/2016/05/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8afrom-a-magician-and-googles-design-ethicist/

Design Ethics and the Limits of the Ethical Designer | Viget

viget.com/articles/design-ethics-and-the-limits-of-the-ethical-designer/

Fair Is Not the Default - Library - Google Design

design.google/library/fair-not-default/
Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

Why we should bulldoze the business school | News | The Guardian

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school
The long read: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years

De l’automatisation des inégalités | InternetActu.net

internetactu.net/2018/01/15/de-lautomatisation-des-inegalites/
Dans une récente  tribune pour le New York Times, lavocate Elisabeth Mason (@elismason1), directrice du Laboratoire pauvreté et technologie qui ...

Quelle éthique pour le design ? | InternetActu.net

internetactu.net/2017/09/18/quelle-ethique-pour-le-design/
Le designer Gauthier Roussilhe (blog) est parti à la rencontre de 12 designers à travers lEurope pour parler déthique appliquée à leur ...

Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech

idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

guest post: artificial intelligence discovers gayface. sigh. – scatterplot

scatter.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/guest-post-artificial-intelligence-discovers-gayface-sigh/
The following is a guest post by Greggor Mattson. AI Can’t Tell if You’re Gay… But it Can Tell if You’re a Walking Stereotype. [First published September 9th. This post has been updated with subsequent information, denoted by square brackets, cited on this resource of responses to the story by tweeters, bloggers, media, and Kosinski himself].…

A Designer’s Code of Ethics – Dear Design Student

deardesignstudent.com/a-designers-code-of-ethics-f4a88aca9e95

Gene Editing Companies Hit Back at Paper That Criticized CRISPR - MIT Technology Review

technologyreview.com/s/608073/gene-editing-companies-hit-back-at-paper-that-criticized-crispr/

'A white mask worked better': why algorithms are not colour blind | Technology | The Guardian

theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/28/joy-buolamwini-when-algorithms-are-racist-facial-recognition-bias

John Deere just told the copyright office that only corporations can own property, humans can only license it / Boing Boing

boingboing.net/2017/04/22/drm-eschatology.html

robots.txt

inkdroid.org/2017/04/23/robots/

Uber has crossed the line from motivating employees to actively manipulating them — Quartz

qz.com/930860/what-is-the-purpose-of-happiness/
The gig economy is supposed to be a tradeoff: In exchange for foregoing the stability of a steady income and health benefits, workers get more freedom and flexibility. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that, in some cases, workers are giving up a lot more than they get in return. A recent article in the New...

Design is diversity: it’s time to talk about our role as designers

uxdesign.cc/diversity-and-design/home

ascott1/ethical-web-dev: A series of short books on ethical web development

github.com/ascott1/ethical-web-dev
ethical-web-dev - A series of short books on ethical web development

A Surreal Trip to a Domain-Names Conference - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/domain-names-dot-horse/516438/
… where misspelled URLs are auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars. Ingrid Burrington

Designers are Boring

deardesignstudent.com/designers-are-boring-9eba8cdf4346
The problem with the tiresome categories I listed above is a matter of approach. They’re technical and process-oriented. They care for means, but rarely for ends. They demonstrate “how” thinking at the expense of “why”.