Computer Ethics, Fall 2020, Mondays

Class 4 Readings

By this point you should have read all of chapter 1 and the first three sections of chapter 4.
For next week you should read Baase Chapter 2 on Privacy


Racism and computers

Clearly, computers themselves have no racial intent. Computers themselves have no intentions whatsoever. They do, however, reflect the biases of system designers.

Twitter image-cropping issue: https://petapixel.com/2020/09/21/twitter-photo-algorithm-draws-heat-for-possible-racial-bias/

The actual twitter link is here: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1307440596668182528%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpetapixel.com%2F2020%2F09%2F21%2Ftwitter-photo-algorithm-draws-heat-for-possible-racial-bias%2F

Can you think of other ways computers might contribute to racial bias? We'll discuss this next week.

(By the way, there are real issues in photography with different skin tones: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html. Digital photography has not really changed things; it is still best to adjust the exposure to the subjects' skin tone at the time the picture is taken.)


End of week 3: just got to Cariou v Prince

Fair Use,

DMCA

Lawsuits against individual downloaders

Some questions: