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Racial Disparities in Police 'Stingray' Surveillance, Mapped
"“We have to ask the question: ‘What are you doing with all that data?’,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice. “We don’t know—that’s part of…
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Should a driverless car kill the kid or the retiree?
"“We mean for that to happen. This premeditation is the difference between manslaughter and murder, a much more serious offense,” wrote Patrick Lin, direct…
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"Tool Without A Handle" - Mobile Tools
“Tool Without a Handle” – Mobile Tools This post continues my thoughts on qualities of digital tools that have helped make political and artistic expression mo…
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MIT's 'Moral Machine' crowdsources decisions about autonomous driving, but experts call it misguided
""This problem," said Bryant Walker Smith, one of the leading experts in the legal aspects of autonomous driving, "has been dangerously hype…
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Activists, the police may be watching your Facebook page
"“At every protest, we assume we’re being spied on, because we know we are,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice acti…
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Conference: Ethics of Specific Technologies
On October 14-15, 2016, the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics hosted a conference on “The Ethics of…
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50 years later, Black Lives Matter takes up Panthers’ fight
"“It’s a vehicle for us to explain issues that have been ignored by mainstream media,” said Malkia Cyril. A Black Lives Matter activist in Oakland, she’s t…
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Lawmakers try to stop mass hacking of Americans' computers by feds
""The use of various forms of (hacking) . . . are more invasive than other searches because they often have unknown, widespread, and sometimes destruc…
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Experts praise White House AI report but split on regulation
"Ryan Calo a law professor at University of Washington, said when human lives are involved, government should sign off on new technology. “My basic view i…
Cybersecurity Expert Discusses Voting, Hackers
"FBI Director James Comey has said that voter-registration sites in at least a dozen states — including Arizona — were targeted by hackers. Department of…
Does privacy have a future?
Jennifer Granick talks about how notions of privacy have changed over the years and where she thinks things are headed in the future. She is a professor at the…
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Researchers Ask Court To Unseal Documents Related To Technical Assistance Requests And Electronic Surveillance Warrants
"Now, we have researchers Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn petitioning [PDF] the Northern District of California court to unseal documents related to…