Menu of case study discussion topics

Pick five top choices and email them to me by Monday 18 February. If you have preferences on who to work with or who not to work with, tell me that too.

Discussions on these articles will begin after spring break and continue for about a month.

• Privacy/health: How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of the world's biggest tech companies
• Privacy/employment: Workplace monitoring gets personal, and employees fear it's too close for comfort
• Privacy/school: Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance
• Social media responsibilities/violence: Facebook is reckoning with its role in “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”
• Social media responsibilities/fact-checking: I Was A Facebook Fact-Checker. It Was Like Playing A Doomed Game Of Whack-A-Mole.
• Social media responsibilities/sensitivity: Dear tech companies, I don’t want to see pregnancy ads after my child was stillborn
• Censorship/violence: My @YouTube account was suspended for uploaded/embedded portions of AQ vids used for analysis for U.S. v Pfc. Manning
• Censorship/sex: How sex censorship killed the internet we love
• IP-copyright/classical music: Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach and It Only Took a Bunch of Public Pressure
• IP-copyright/scientific research: Scientific research piracy site hit with $15 million fine
• IP-copyright/medical devices: 'I’m Possibly Alive Because It Exists:' Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker
• Vulnerabilities/ethical disclosure: Microsoft Calls Out NSA For 'Stockpiling' Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerabilities/voting: In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting
• Cheating on regulations/Volkswagen: VW engineer sentenced to 40 months in prison for role in emissions cheating
• Programmer error/legal system: Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake
• Psychological manipulation/advertising: How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
• Data aggregation/DNA databases: I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA boss after being caught giving folks' DNA data to FBI
• Data aggregation/voting: Trump voter-fraud panel’s data request a gold mine for hackers, experts warn
• Data aggregation/social media: Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for access to all of their personal data
• Data preservation/military: How the military is making it hard to remember our wars
• Sexist algorithms/hiring: Amazon Created a Hiring Tool Using A.I. It Immediately Started Discriminating Against Women.
• Racist algorithms/credit scoring: Modern-day redlining: How banks block people of color from homeownership
• Racist algorithms/facial recognition: How white engineers built racist code – and why it's dangerous for black people
• Internet appliances/abuse: Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
• Internet appliances/invasion: 'Why are you looking at me? I see you watching me.' Smart devices like Nest getting hacked in digital home invasions.
• Internet appliances/law enforcement: Police think Alexa may have witnessed a New Hampshire double homicide. Now they want Amazon to turn her over.
• Internet appliances/toys: Kids’ toys are the latest battleground in the online privacy wars
• Automation/markets: The robots-vs.-robots trading that has hijacked the stock market
• Automation/airplane control: The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless?
• Automation/self-driving cars: This is the most important moral question about self-driving cars