Computer Ethics, Summer 2018


Comm 010, 5:30-8:30ish Tuesdays and Thursdays
Class 5

Class 5 Readings

Read all of chapter 2 on privacy



Facebook again!

A few months ago, Facebook was in trouble for allowing Cambridge Analytica to obtain data from all the friends of the people who signed up for a quiz. (The theory was that those people could reveal their friends' data, so this didn't violate any expectations.)

Now Facebook is again in trouble for sharing user data: this time with hardware vendors. Facebook has a point: if you're developing a simplified Facebook app for the phone you are selling, you need at least some Facebook data. Did they go too far? Should this have stopped once it became clear that nobody used unified apps any more?

See nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html.

Facebook respectfully disagrees: newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/why-we-disagree-with-the-nyt.


Tesla will not share data from your Tesla's event recorder without a subpoena:

www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tesla-blames-drivers-who-wreck-its-cars-but-wont-hand-over-crash-data-without-a-court-order-053018.html.




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