Industry Keyword: Ethics
Computing Platforms
Investors call for ethical approach to facial recognition technology
A group of 50 investors managing more than $4.5 trillion in assets is calling on companies involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology, such as Amazon and Facebook, to do so...
Search Engines
Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher
An engineering director and a software developer have quit Google over the dismissal of artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity policies and ethics.
David...
Social Networks
Interesting: Facebook’s advertising integrity chief leaves company
Facebook's chief of advertising ethics, who managed the organization's ad products around sensitive subjects like politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, based on an internal company post seen by journalists.
Rob Leathern, director of...
App Stores
Focus on people as well as profit, business leaders told
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Consumers have the power to make companies behave better and look beyond the bottom line, business leaders and activists said on Wednesday, urging a "race for the top" on...