Perhaps if they make it less effective they can use it?

Lockport schools push to activate contentious facial recognition security system

Thomas J. Prohaska reports:

Studies and local critics question its effectiveness. The State Education Department won’t let it be turned on. And the State Legislature came close to banning it.

But the Lockport City School District continues to push to activate a facial recognition security system it installed last year in its 10 school buildings.

“We believe it does provide another layer of security for our students. We firmly believe in that,” Board of Education President John A. Linderman said.

Oh, they FIRMLY believe in that… well, then.

Read more on The Buffalo News.

[From the article:

Wednesday night, the Board of Education, in its latest effort to win the state's approval to use the $2.75 million system, decided that photographs of suspended students will not be programmed into it.

Such students were to have been one of the categories of banned individuals whose presence, if detected by the 300 digital cameras the district installed last year, would trigger an alarm to local police and a small group of administrators.

Could this be extended to show how feeds influence actions?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03109

FAIRY: A Framework for Understanding Relationships between Users' Actions and their Social Feeds

Users increasingly rely on social media feeds for consuming daily information. The items in a feed, such as news, questions, songs, etc., usually result from the complex interplay of a user's social contacts, her interests and her actions on the platform. The relationship of the user's own behavior and the received feed is often puzzling, and many users would like to have a clear explanation on why certain items were shown to them. Transparency and explainability are key concerns in the modern world of cognitive overload, filter bubbles, user tracking, and privacy risks. This paper presents FAIRY, a framework that systematically discovers, ranks, and explains relationships between users' actions and items in their social media feeds. We model the user's local neighborhood on the platform as an interaction graph, a form of heterogeneous information network constructed solely from information that is easily accessible to the concerned user.

… User studies on two social platforms demonstrate the practical viability and user benefits of the FAIRY method.

“Show me the ethics!” It’s easy to find bad examples (that’s what Google is for) but much harder to vet a company for ethical behavior.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/stanford-tech-students-backlash-google-facebook-palantir.html

The Techlash Has Come to Stanford

Even in the famed computer science program, students are no longer sure they’d go to work for Facebook or Google (and definitely not Palantir).

I’ve always had a hard time believing that the situation dictates the ethics.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Designing-Normative-Theories-of-Ethical-Reasoning%3A-Benzm%C3%BCller-Parent/0a83355dda932deb50a85662fa87d5129d09c66e

Designing Normative Theories of Ethical Reasoning: Formal Framework, Methodology, and Tool Support

The area of formal ethics is experiencing a shift from a unique or standard approach to normative reasoning, as exemplified by so-called standard deontic logic, to a variety of application-specific theories. However, the adequate handling of normative concepts such as obligation, permission, prohibition, and moral commitment is challenging, as illustrated by the notorious paradoxes of deontic logic. In this article we introduce an approach to design and evaluate theories of normative reasoning. In particular, we present a formal framework based on higher-order logic, a design methodology, and we discuss tool support. Moreover, we illustrate the approach using an example of an implementation, we demonstrate different ways of using it, and we discuss how the design of normative theories is now made accessible to non-specialist users and developers.