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Ethics in the wild #7 – Newsletter on moral tripwires
Written on 01.06.2021 16:03 by Ursela Barteczko
Sometimes it is worth taking one step back and look at the bigger picture. How are computer science and also the ethical questions we discuss here embedded in the broader context of different societies? In Europe, NGOs filed a complaint against Clearview because of its use of facial recognition technology. (Bloomberg) In other parts of the world, even more intrusive technologies are tested on minorities, who barely have anyone to advocate for their rights and privacy. A recent example of this is an emotion recognition system the Chinese government is testing on the Uyghur minority (Click here for a short overview from netzpolitik.org in German and here for a more detailed article from BBC in English). An older example is the employment of biometric data for identification of recipients of humanitarian aid (Süddeutsche, Article in German)
In this talk Moshe Y. Yardi makes a case for more policy in addition to ethical discussions in the tech industry.