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Tech Ethics
An incomplete collection of links about ethics in tech.
Codes of ethics, principles, and pledges:
Press:
- EFF: Google’s Leadership Still Needs To Give Details About Project Dragonfly: Googlers Can Still Help, Aug 2018
- Amnesty International: Open letter: Google must not capitulate on human rights to gain access to China, Aug 2018
- The NY Times: Google Employees Protest Secret Work on Censored Search Engine for China, Aug 2018
- The NY Times: Google, Seeking a Return to China, Is Said to Be Building a Censored Search Engine, Aug 2018
- The Intercept: Google Plans To Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal, Aug 2018
- Wired: Nonprofit for Migrants Declines a Donation from Salesforce, Jul 2018
- EFF: Should Your Company Help ICE? “Know Your Customer” Standards for Evaluating Domestic Sales of Surveillance Equipment, Jul 2018
- Microsoft: Facial recognition technology: The need for public regulation and corporate responsibility, Jul 2018
- Business Insider: Activists marched outside of the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco to protest the company's contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Jul 2018
- CNBC: Silicon Valley firms are facing a rise in anger from a new source: Their own employees, Jul 2018
- Wired: Why Tech Worker Dissent Is Going Viral, Jun 2018
- Fortune: Google's Diane Greene Says Tech Companies Need to Set Boundaries for Using A.I., Jun 2018
- Bloomberg: Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency, Jun 2018
Action Network: An Open Letter to Microsoft: Drop your $19.4 million ICE tech contract, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement, Jun 2018
- Bloomberg: Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract, Jun 2018
- The NY Times: Microsoft Employees Protest Work With ICE, as Tech Industry Mobilizes Over Immigration, Jun 2018
- The NY Times: Amazon Urged Not to Sell Facial Recognition Technology to Police, Jun 2018
ACLU: Over 150,000 People Tell Amazon: Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech to Police, Jun 2018
- Jacobin: Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program, Jun 2018
- AI at Google: our principles, Jun 2018
- ACLU: Amazon Teams Up With Government to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology, May 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract, May 2018
- ICRAC: Open Letter in Support of Google Employees and Tech Workers, May 2018
- EFF: Google Should Not Help the U.S. Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems, Apr 2018
- The NY Times: ‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon, Apr 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones, Mar 2018
ObDisclaimers: I do not speak for my employer. I do not believe everything I read in the press. I do not condone leaks.