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A Day Trip Through Technology Choices
June 23, 2025FILED UNDER: Articles, Case Studies, Editorial & Opinion, Environment, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
The choices for development, roads, trains, and transport are just as essential to the social impacts of technology as the technologies themselves.

A Conversation on Waste and Local Action
June 18, 2025FILED UNDER: Articles, Case Studies, Environment, Ethics, Human Impacts, Interview, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
CUCCR approaches solid waste by harnessing data collection to understand the waste flows within the university, using a tucked-away basement space to give waste materials a chance to pause and potentially be repurposed before being landfilled or recycled.

Smart AI, Private Lives: Can We Have Both?
June 10, 2025FILED UNDER: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Privacy & Security, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
SSIT is participating in the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative, a program under IEEE Future Directions that “focuses on a user-centric perspective—looking at the digital privacy needs of the individuals rather than the security of data, products, and organizations—such as providing individuals with user-enabled privacy controls and promoting privacy at the outset of product and service lifecycles.”
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Special Issue on Ethical Innovation with/in Music Technology — Deadline Extended
June 23, 2025FILED UNDER: Blog Posts, Call for Papers, Call for Papers, Conferences, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact, Transactions
The deadline for the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society Special Issue on Ethical Innovation with/in Music Technology has been extended to December 31, 2025.