Mason Marks

As COVID-19 intensifies our online existence, software has become an agent of disability discrimination. Amend the Americans With Disabilities Act.

COVID has made it clear: People with physical and mental impairments may be denied access to essential services online.

Americans should be skeptical of tech company involvement with COVID-19 testing.

Regulators should be focusing on exactly what Google plans to do with all this data.

Tech companies that collect our “digital traces” can feed them into black-box algorithms that make important decisions about what we are served up online.

Dispensaries are adopting in-store surveillance systems to protect profits. Experts warn it’s a ‘slippery slope’ to discrimination.

Legal scholars, roboticists, ethicists, and policy makers gathered in Miami at the We Robot conference to discuss trends around robots and social issues.

Social media companies are grappling with how to identify and censor other self-harm.

Expert argues for altering regulations on psychedelic drugs to treat mental illness and addiction.

Suicide prediction technology is revolutionary. It badly needs oversight.  The Washington Post

U.S. health privacy laws were created before genetic privacy became an issue, and they don’t adequately protect it. HIPAA doesn’t apply to online genealogy companies or the All of Us program. We need new laws to protect genetic privacy.