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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

... starts afresh in April, this time with an emphasis on major epistemic questions related to information technologies. Vincent F. Hendicks is going to kick off our summer term public lecture series on 10th April 2019 with his talk "Attention Economics and Rage Against the Machine."

Please join us to explore and discuss the ethics of information technologies with renowned international guest speakers. Programme

3 Frauen und 2 Männer sitzen auf dem Podium und diskutieren
BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel
19 March 2019|Event
Offiziell gestartet: Wissenschaftsjahr 2019 – Künstliche Intelligenz

Welche Chancen bietet Künstliche Intelligenz und vor welche Herausforderungen stellt sie uns gegenwärtig und zukünftig? Das Wissenschaftsjahr 2019 soll helfen, Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden. Am 19. März 2019 fand die Auftaktveranstaltung in Berlin statt. Judith Simon war Gast der Podiumsdiskussion mit...

Schriftzug Datenethikkommission
BMJV
19 March 2019|Event
Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung im Zeitalter künstlicher Intelligenz

Die Vorträge und Diskussionen der Öffentlichen Tagung der Datenethikkommission am 7. Februar 2019 sind nun online auf der Startseite der Datenethikkommission abrufbar. Die Mitglieder der Datenethikkommission diskutierten mit eingeladenen Expertinnen und Experten sowie interessierten Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern darüber...

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18 March 2019|Event
Upcoming EIT talk: Rainer Mühlhoff „Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence, or: How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains?“

Rainer Mühlhoff from the FU-Berlin will visit us on March 18th to present his research on „Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence, or: How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains? - Towards a Collective Ethics of Machine Learning“

Bits and Pieces*

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Archive of current news
22 March 2019|International
Guardian: Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws

"Facebook has targeted politicians around the world – including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne – promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy...

22 March 2019|International
Vanity Fair: “Men Are Scum”: Inside Facebook’s War on Hate Speech

"The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government.”

19 February 2019|International
UK Paliament: Final report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’ published

The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published its final report on Disinformation and ‘fake news’.

18 February 2019|International
PoliticoPro: Patients say Facebook exposed health information

"Facebook should be forced to pay billions of dollars in fines for misleading patients about the privacy of its online forums, and for failing to notify them of a major breach of sensitive health information, according to a complaint...

8 February 2019|International
The Intercept: Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

"Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange choice: He could go up...

6 February 2019|International
ZDNet: Revolut’s clumsy automated bank compliance results in frozen accounts and lack of customer service

"The hand off of perceived account irregularities from Revolut’s AI driven compliance systems and algorithms to their support and partners is when the account freeze ups appear to start, and customers are suffering"

* 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.