News by Subject Policy & Ethics

Data privacy is an important topic in the digitalised economy. Recent policy changes have aimed to strengthen users' control over their own data. Yet new research from Copenhagen Business School finds designers of cookie banners can affect users' privacy choices by manipulating the choice architecture and with simple changes can increase absolute consent by 17%.

Necessity is the father of invention, but where is its mother? According to a new study published in Science, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.

In a new paper experts review the vaccine research and development process and propose areas where reforms could increase access, speed time to market and decrease costs -- from R&D to manufacturing and regulation to the management of incentives like patents and public funding.

A study from Michigan Medicine reveals that Epic System's sepsis prediction tool performs much worse than indicated by the model's information sheet, correctly sorting patients on their risk of sepsis just 63 percent of the time.

Do users, customers, employees, and others have a right to know how companies that use algorithms make their decisions? In a new analysis, researchers explore the moral and ethical foundations to such a right. They conclude that the right to such an explanation is a moral right, then address how companies might do so.

Researchers from MSU are developing a mobile app to act as a safeguard for popular but vulnerable "wallet" applications used to manage cryptocurrency.

This new tool uses an artificial intelligence system to generate fake documents that foil IP theft by fooling adversaries

Open access (OA) democratizes access to research literature, but OA authors are more likely to be males in STEM fields at wealthier institutions.