Issues of Implied Trust in Ethical Hacking

Crowdwork involves paid work organised through online platforms. As a relatively new form of employment, a range of issues have emerged around work practices and contractual arrangements between the three parties: task requesters, crowdworkers, and platform owners. In this paper we examine some of the issues associated with workers’ experience of crowdwork that have been raised in recent years. We then outline how the affordances offered by another emerging technology, blockchain, could be used to address some of those issues. Based on a conceptual, scenario-based exercise, we argue that there is considerable potential for blockchain technology to manage the transaction-based aspects of crowdwork processes and contractual arrangements to make them fairer and more transparent, but without necessarily incurring excessive overhead costs. However, despite the claimed “democratizing” effect of blockchain, some structural issues associated with managing work are not likely to be improved by blockchain-based solutions

Technoethics and Human Rights: The Metaethical Implications of Crisismapping and the Right to Privacy in Post-Disaster, Post-Conflict Scenarios

Do invasive digital approaches to disaster response come at too high of a cost to privacy, such that we should seek alternative methods or regulations? This paper examines the tension between the right to privacy and crisismapping, a new technological advancement in emergency response. After mapping the critical international institutions and stakeholders, the paper grounds interests to effective triage and to digital privacy in international human rights law. A thought experiment is offered to show our conflicting intuitions when privacy is weighed against critical safety interests, and multiple procedures are evaluated as means to reconcile these interests and determine the extent of the right to privacy. Ultimately, the paper calls for an expanded inquiry by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, who has the power to engage multiple stakeholders for a fair and inclusive new approach. Privacy costs are too fundamental for emergency response to proceed without proper scrutiny