Earlier this week, Technology Review ran a piece discussing the social networking site, Moli, which allows users to manage multiple identities through a common login, controlling who gets to see what aspect of their lives. I was quoted in the…
Tag: Values in Design
The Challenges of the Values Advocate
When Ask.com launched AskEraser, a new service which promises to protect user privacy by, upon request, deleting users’ search activity from Ask.com servers, I applauded the effort, but also pointed out some of its shortcomings. The privacy advocacy group EPIC,…
Yale ISP Reading Group: Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design
This spring I am running a reading group at the Yale Information Society Project (but open to all) titled "Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design." The description and draft syllabus are below -- comments and suggestions are welcome! Technology, Law,…
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Graduate Student Workshop: Values in Computer and Information System Design
A few years ago I was privileged to attend the Graduate Student Workshop on Values in Computer and Information System Design, hosted by Geoffrey Bowker and Helen Nissenbaum, at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.…
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Dear Facebook, Google: Please Engage in Value-Conscious Design
Much of my research strives to extend my broader social, political, and ethical explorations of information and communication technologies beyond the halls of academia and into “real-world” design contexts to pragmatically engage with designers and advocate for the value-conscious design…
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Facebook Changes Beacon to How it Should Have Been Designed in the First Place
As expected, Facebook has announced changes to their controversial Beacon advertising system where users' off-site purchasing activities can be automatically displayed in the Facebook feed. The New York Times reports these changes: Stories about actions users take on external websites…
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How Google Blew It with Street View
As I just mentioned, Google recently announced plans to blur or otherwise obscure people's faces in the Canadian version of the Street View product. After a brief conversation with my colleague Chris Hoofnagle, I've come to realize that in their…
Privacy and Quaero’s Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities
I'm in Maastricht today participating in the "Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine." In my talk, "Privacy and Quaero's Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities," I call on the…
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Anti-Sit Technologies
Those familiar with my work know I'm interested in how technologies can embody values, or more specifically, how the design of technologies bears directly and systematically on the realization – or suppression – of social, ethical, and political values, such…
CEPE 2007: Seventh International Computer Ethics Conference
Noëmi Manders-Huits (Delft University of Technology) and I have been accepted to present our paper “Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of engagement with technical design communities” at CEPE 2007: Seventh International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, hosted by…
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