Articles

Some great and helpful articles from the Ethical Design Network community members. 

How to Keep Your Abortion Private in 2023

I am extremely saddened I have to post this, but if you live in the Untied States, this can save your life, literally. For the lucky ones that are not aware of the dire situation in many States, let me give you a bit of a background: with the overturning of Roe v....

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Does Inclusion Include age?

I apologize for the cheesy title, but the question is real. There is a lot of talk about equity, and inclusion– and rightly so – but I have noticed that old age is often barely mentioned in these conversations. Now, I may be biased, but reading Tom Green's article,...

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Can Twitter get even more toxic?

DISCLAIMER: I live in the United States, so I wrote this article from an American perspective. I really hope it is better in other countries. I know, this is totally a clickbait title, but I am serious: Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may signal a new low for the...

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The loss of privacy and its dire consequences

I often lament the loss of online privacy and complain about how data brokers possess way too much information about all of us. They are ready to sell it to the highest bidder, that will then provide "personalized" advertisements. Sure, it is easy enough to ignore...

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Conquer the cookie monster

This is Part 3 of a series on digital privacy…or the lack thereof In part 1 we talked about types of cookies and their purpose, and in part 2 we looked at some of the things you can do to protect your online privacy. Now, we turn our look at the infamous “cookie...

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Protect your Online Privacy

This is Part 2 of a series on digital privacy…or the lack thereof In part 1 of the series, we discussed how every time you are online your activities are tracked through small pieces of data injected in your browser, called cookies. Why do companies collect all this...

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Newsletters

The Ethical Design Network sends out a monthly newsletter. These are our latest newsletters. 

#3 Your August ED Network Newsletter

With the summer holiday over for some of us, it's time to start looking towards the second half of 2022. Our (growing — whoop) Ethical Design Network is gearing up with some new initiatives — one being announced in this newsletter — and we're super excited to keep you...

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#2 Your Monthly ED Network Newsletter

This was not meant to be a difficult newsletter to write. I had scheduled myself to write it on the 4th of July, and it would be business as usual (as “usual” as it gets when this is only the second newsletter that we send out). But that changed. On the 3rd of July,...

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Event Recordings

The Ethical Design Network hosts a monthly event, here are the latest event recordings: