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This is the homepage of the research group Ethics in Information Technology at the Department of Informatics at University of Hamburg. Our team researches the ethical, legal, social and political implications of contemporary information technologies and big data practices.

Here you can learn more about our research group and interdisciplinary team, the research, and teaching we do within and beyond the department of informatics and find latest news about activities from members of the research group.

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EIT Public Lecture Series: TAMING THE MACHINES

... is back for winter term, this time with a focus on "Information Technology for a Good Society". Next we are going to host the Surveillance Studies Lecture and Surveillance Studies Prize Award Ceremony 2020 on January 29th. We are delighted, that Dr. Pak-Hang Wong of our research group will be guest speaker at this event.  Save the date for his talk "Three Arguments for “Responsible Users”. AI Ethics for Ordinary People".

See here for our Programme Winter 19/20, have a look at our upcoming Programme Summer 20 or stream our talks on Universität Hamburg's video platform Lecture2Go.

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16 January 2020|Event
Beyond Ethics in Data Mining. For a Political Discussion of a Political Issue

In his talk on January 16, 2020, Professor Bernhard Rieder will discuss data mining - understood as the purpose driven reading of empirical reality - in relation to recent debates about the "ethical issues" raised by these practices. While the identification of such issues - and proposals for possible "solutions" -...

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9 January 2020|Administration
Prof. Ingrid Schneider in ZEKO berufen

„Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schneider ist in die Zentrale Kommission zur Wahrung ethischer Grundsätze in der Medizin und ihren Grenzgebieten (ZEKO) bei der Bundesärztekammer berufen worden. Die multidisziplinäre Kommission ZEKO verfasst Stellungnahmen zu relevanten ethischen Fragestellungen für die Ärzteschaft und die interessierte...

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8 January 2020|Publication
Surveillance Studies Journalistenpreise 2020 – die Gewinner

Das Forschungsnetzwerk surveillance-studies.org gibt die diesjährigen Gewinner der Surveillance Studies-Preis 2020 für Journalist*innen bekannt. Preisträgerin in diesem Jahr ist Anna Biselli für ein 3-teiliges Recherche-Projekt zur Sprach-IT des Bundesamt für Migrationund Flüchtlinge (BAMF), u.a.: „Die IT-Tools des BAMF...

Bits and Pieces*

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20 January 2020|International
New York Times: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

"A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.”

15 January 2020|International
Republik: Der kalte Tech-Krieg

"2020 wird zum Schicksals­jahr. Entweder setzt sich die chinesische Tech-Diktatur, Donald Trumps Tech-Nationalismus oder die europäische Tech-Demokratie durch."

8 January 2020|International
Tagesspiegel: Berliner Polizei hortet massenhaft sensible Daten von Bürgern

"Das Ausmaß der Datenschutzprobleme bei der Berliner Polizei ist weitaus größer als bisher bekannt. Kurz vor Weihnachten hat Berlins Datenschutzbeauftragte Maja Smoltczyk eine offizielle Beanstandung an die Polizei geschickt – es ist das...

6 January 2020|International
TAZ: Tschüss, Google!

"Google hatte sich tief in mein Privatleben gefressen. Jetzt habe ich mich getrennt – und nutze digitale Produkte, die mich nicht ausspionieren.”

4 January 2020|International
Guardian: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’

"An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook...

2 January 2020|International
Medium: I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left.

"The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed.”

* Bits and Pieces

Under "Bits and Pieces" we share reads, podcasts or videos which we find interesting. Please note that the viewpoints expressed in the shared content do not represent the position of the Ethics in Information Technology working group, any of its members, nor of the University of Hamburg.