Category: News Article

How Inclusive Machine Learning Can Benefit Your Organization

Decision-Making, Fair Algorithm, Fair Training Data, Inclusivity, Machine Learning

Author: Christopher Tozzi; Publisher: ITPro Today; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how businesses have started putting more of an “inclusive” focus on machine learning models to avoid bias and error while creating models.…
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Great Promise but Potential for Peril

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Decision-Making, Discrimination, Healthcare, Hiring Software, Human Judgement, Machine Learning, Product Development, Surveillance, Unconscious Bias

Author: Christina Pazzanese Publisher: The Harvard Gazette Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article starts off by talking about all the different ways in which AI or machine learning can help improve society and business.…
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Your Big Data Responsibility: The Rise In Data Ethics

Algorithmic Audit, Company Profits, Consent, Customer Data, Design, Evaluation, Informed Consent, risk mitigation, Transparency

Author: Christian Ofori-Boateng; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how, for businesses, data represents customers, and customers drive profit. It’s easy for a business to be distracted by company profits and less…
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Driverless Cars: Experts Warn No Easy Answer to How Safe They Should Be

Autonomous Vehicles, Consent, Delineation, Self-Driving Cars

Author: Chris Vallance; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how self-driving cars, while emerging in the tech world, are not yet normalized in overall society. In the UK, policymakers are contemplating…
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Google Fined $57M by Data Protection Watchdog Over GDPR Violations

Ad Personalization, Amazon, Apple, Consent, Data Collection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Lawsuits, Netflix, Spotify

Author: Chris Brook; Publisher: Data Insider; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how while it might be easy to say that just because a law has been passed to regulate data ethics more strictly…
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Ethics Watchdog Bars US Government Employees from Writing Crypto Policy if Invested

Crypto, Digital Assets, Federal Workers, Legal Advisory, Office of Government Ethics

Author: Cheyenne Ligon; Publisher: Coin Desk; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a new legal advisory from the Office of Government Ethics that bars federal workers who own crypto from working on policies that…
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Indian-Origin Pixstory Ties Up with Arsenal to Promote Social Media Ethics

Algorithms, Cyberbullying, Data Collection, Hate Speech, Misinformation, Pixstory, Social Media, User Experience

Author: N/A; Publisher: Business Standard; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how the social media platform called Pixstory is promoting more ethical behavior on the internet. The way the platform is designed discourages misinformation…
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What’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Deepfake, Image Generation, Open Source Software

Author: Charlie Warzel; Publisher: The Atlantic; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how open source software, which generates images from text, presents two ethical conundrums. First, there is the possibility for abuse by users…
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1.5 Million Customers Impacted by Flagstar Bank Data Breach

Cybercrime, Data Breach, File Transfer Appliance, Flagstar Bank, Personal Data, Personally Identifiable Information, Security Incident

Author: Charlie Osborne; Publisher: ZDNET; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how a data breach occurred at Flagstar Bank between December 3 and December 4, 2021. The security incident caused the exposure of personal…
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