Rana Ayyub received a chilling message from a friend: “Something is circulating…I’m going to send it to you but promise me you won’t feel upset.” The video that appeared on her phone was deepfake pornography. But despite the impacts of deepfake porn on victims, efforts to ban, restrict, and identify it face several roadblocks.

Putting on VR goggles and diving into the metaverse seems to promise a liberating escape from the weary 9-5. But this does not entitle metaverse players to escape stringent moderation of their words and actions in online and virtual worlds.

The value of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. But so too has the reality that structural biases in healthcare can disproportionately affect marginalized populations. We cannot overlook how using AI to predictively diagnose patients might further marginalize certain groups.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz directed a salvo of questions at Twitter over the controversial practice that he referred to as “shadow banning”. But the question remains: does shadow banning even exist in the first place?

Flo Health Inc, a period and ovulation tracker which claimed 32 million active users in 2021, offers its users accurate cycle predictions, personalized health insights, and a better standard of gynaecological health. The catch? Despite explicitly promising to keep users’ intimate and sensitive health data private, Flo disclosed this data to third parties that provided marketing and analytics services to the app.