Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)

vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook

Big Brother Awards 2014 – Aral Balkan: We need an ethical approach to design

Aral’s opening keynote from Bits of Freedom’s Big Brother Awards 2014

^Vimeo

Why do we still need #people?

• To elect the government in a supposed democracy. Well manipulated with fear and fake news, of course.
• As a consumer in capitalism, to buy unnecessary cheap products at a high price. Preferably virtual products that can be scaled up at will without production costs and still generate real profit.
• To train the AI models and to generate training data for these models.
• As modern-day slaves to serve the financial elite and provide a comfortable life for them.
• ...

Have I forgotten anything?

#humanity #ethics #future #philosophy #politics #economy #life #question #system

The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga

Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

^{Mother Jones}