Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’
Assessments concerning privacy can hardly be completely neutral and may underlie some cultural bias.
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Toward Justice in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship
Computer science education cannot fix its internal injustices and external harms to society if it aims only to broaden participation. Instead, institutional change is required.
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A Call to Action
We cannot put the genii back in the bottle, but we can ensure human control.
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.
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Technology’s Impact on Morality
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson
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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
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We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Our challenge is to ensure new technologies support us as humans, not ceding our control to them, or letting them make us dumber.
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Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?
As financial pressures on climate risk and reputation grow, computing industry executives have made new commitments to reduce carbon emissions and impact.
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Russia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
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Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace
In Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace, researchers Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens provide a window into the working lives of hackers who participate in “bug bounty” programs—programs that hire hackers to discover and report bugs or other vulnerabilities in their systems.
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High Above Ukraine, Satellites Get Embroiled in the War
While the Russian invasion rages on the ground, companies that operate data-collecting satellites find themselves in an awkward position.
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A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet
On Friday, online access was curtailed by both Russian censors and Western businesses as the war in Ukraine became a reason for moves that limited free access to the Internet.
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Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation
The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally.
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The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower
The deposit could power millions of clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, for which a mine might mean extinction.
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Why prisoners like me need internet access
I haven’t been online in almost two decades. Being able to would help me prepare for life after my release.
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The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures
Technology doesn’t rule us. We direct it, but often by inaction.
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She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
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Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit
Technology has completely transformed the global food supply system, yet still hasn’t brought an end to hunger. For that to happen, the choices we need to make are political, not technological.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future. The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
Dark patterns are user interfaces that benefit an online service by leading users into making decisions they might not otherwise make. Some dark patterns deceive users while others covertly manipulate or coerce them into choices that are not in their best interests.
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Who Has Access to Your Smartphone Data?
There are very few legal limits on what governments can do with even the most personal data once they have it.
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