Tech Ethics

19 episodes

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  • 1

    Tech's Moral Void

    Ideas

    55:03 | Mar 14th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Lawyers and doctors have a code of ethics. Teachers have them. Even journalists have them. So why not the tech sector, the people who create and design our very modes of communication? Coders and desi...Show More

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    This is a great episode on tech ethics! Lots of good points to chew on. Some quick highlights: - I didn't know that Twitter filters Nazis and Holocaust deniers in Germany (because they're required to ...Show More

  • 2

    Fake news. Foreign meddling. Fraud. Deliberate deception: the list goes on. And we consume all of it, sometimes not knowing the source or what is truth. What can we do to confront the epidemic of disi...Show More

  • 3

    As we say in the radio biz – the mic is always on.

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    Is Alexa and other smart speakers really AI or just a bunch of coders and writers filling in if/then statements? Creepy that speakers record everything even if it’s anonymized for quality assurance pu...Show More

  • 4

    Canada has a data problem

    The Big Story

    21:23 | Feb 13th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Things you might think a sophisticated first-world country would know about its citizens...we simply don't. Numbers and information that might help researchers and planners find answers and direct the...Show More

  • 5

    Maybe share this episode with your uncle, who posted some weird stuff last week. Or your grandma. Or your dad. Our older relatives are being fed a diet of digital lies, and it's our fault, collectivel...Show More

  • 6

    Casey Newton covers technology for The Verge and writes The Interface newsletter. “I remember one time a Facebook employee told me when I wrote something critical and I said something like, ‘Yeah, I ...Show More

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    Great hearing from one of the top tech journalists of our time, Casey Newton, and the rise of tech journalism.

  • 7

    In this season finale of Prime(d), we go deep into how neighborhood social networks and surveillance are changing our behavior in our neighborhoods.

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    Thought smart speakers were scary, but this is probably worse. Amazon bought Ring, a security cam startup, for $1B. Now they have all the footage of your neighbourhood and are trying to create online ...Show More

  • 8

    "Attentional Serfdom"

    Tricky

    1:05:54 | Feb 13th, 2018

    In the inaugural episode of Tricky, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin look at perhaps the greatest challenge facing journalism today: the fight to capture your attention and speak with Natasha Schull, au...Show More

  • 9

    Behind the Rising Labor Movement in Tech

    Function with Anil Dash

    1:03:26 | Dec 10th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google employees around the world staged a mass walkout in protest of how the company handled claims of sexual misconduct. While this is not the first time we have se...Show More

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    I've always anticipated that there will likely be a labour movement in tech and a wave of unionization as the industry matures despite its libertarian bent. This was a fantastic and fascinating conver...Show More

  • 10

    The integrity of the internet is at stake -- what have we lost and how do we get it back? At the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Anil spoke with web scholars and writers about reclaiming the internet thr...Show More

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    I loved this episode about reclaiming community on the web. Probably one of the most important and nuanced conversation about the internet, community, and society that I've heard in a long time. Some...Show More

  • 11

    After 18 months of consultation, Google sister company Sidewalk Labs has released its master draft proposal to develop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. The proposal includes everything from an affor...Show More

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    Good overview on what's happening with Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Appreciated David Skok's reflection on the larger geopolitical views on data privacy. Will Torontonians want to trade-off privacy and a...Show More

  • 12

    2. Delivery Hero

    Hustled

    31:43 | May 25th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Sara gets a job as a foodora courier to find out what life is like when your boss is an app. On the job she uncovers some unexpected challenges and risks. In this episode, we meet several - much more ...Show More

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    Horrifying. You pretty much are paying Foodora to work when you're a food courier.

  • 13

    What keeps people on Snapchat?

    Why'd You Push That Button?

    36:36 | Jul 24th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    In the social media world, Instagram has dominated as the most used app in 2019, but what happened to Snapchat? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany dive into where Snapchat is after Instagram stole thei...Show More

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    This was a super fun and hilarious episode about why people are still on Snapchat. Because it's a delightful app that keep on inventing fun viral hits (like baby face swap)! Those people who are Snap ...Show More

  • 14

    The idea behind the Citizen app is that its users upload videos of the things that are going on in the neighborhood in real time — anything from as a gas leak to something potentially a lot more viole...Show More

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    A 12-year-old is the town’s citizen reporter. He goes around and live streams and live reports crime scene on this app called “Citizen” and has a big following. Is this app the “democratization of new...Show More

  • 15

    It’s been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America. Since then, there have be...Show More

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    The most mind-blowing part of this conversation is Jack Dorsey reminding us that the Trump-news-politics Twitter is only a tiny sliver of the conversations happening on Twitter albeit an important one...Show More

  • 16

    A Different Kind of Streaking

    Note to Self

    17:38 | Jun 20th, 2018

    2 recommendations

    With former Google designer Tristan Harris, who explains how far Silicon Valley will go to capture and control your eyeballs. And Snapchat artist CyreneQ, who makes her living drawing on her phone all...Show More

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    Snapchat's streaking feature is arguably the worse UX when it comes to getting people habituated and addicted to an app. Are there more ethical ways to design apps on the user's terms? Duolingo is ci...Show More

  • 17

    The Social Dilemma of Social Media

    Pantsuit Politics

    50:29 | Sep 18th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    We watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix and it brought up all kinds of thoughts and feelings for us about social media. We tease apart some of those thoughts and what the government's role should or ...Show More

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    An episode that's diving deep into the new Netflix show "The Social Dilemma" and our relationship with social from an individual and political perspective. Interesting to hear how the show is really w...Show More

  • 18

    It was supposed to be a simple story about the California drought. Instead, reporter Emily Guerin became obsessed with the bizarre history of a sprawling, half-built desert city.

  • 19

    Was This Google Ethicist Fired for Doing Her Job?

    What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

    24:12 | Dec 15th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Recently, one of the world’s leading AI ethics researchers, Timnit Gebru, left Google. Google says she resigned. Timnit says she was fired. In the days since, Timnit’s departure has turned into a publ...Show More

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    Been wondering about this situation. You get to hear directly from the woman who was fired. Shows the difficulties of conflicting priorities and cultures of a private co.

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