Financial Market Manipulation Disguised as Innovation
Investigating how self-learning algorithms facilitate "Black Box" collusion and spoofing without human intervention.
Open Intelligence LogTrack A: Liability & Legal Policy
The Crime of Negligence
When platforms possess internal data on user harm but prioritize engagement over remedial action.
Trust SystemsInfluencer Marketing Fraud
How recommendation algorithms and bot farms exploit technical gaps to monetize false trust.
AntitrustCorporate Crime & Algorithms
Liability frameworks for algorithmic price-fixing and "hub-and-spoke" software schemes.
Public SafetyAlgorithmic Parenting
Examining platform liability and the psychological impact of engagement-first design.
Track B: Economic Ethics & Geopolitics
The Influence of Data on Public Decisions
An editorial on the limitations of a “data-driven” system of government and the myth of objective numbers.
Retail EthicsDynamic Pricing’s Dark Side
Analyzing how individual user profiling leads to "price gouging by another name."
CybersecurityThe Dark Side of FinTech
How deepfakes and AI are fueling a new era of financial document forgery.
GeopoliticsBig Tech & Global Governance
How platform sovereignty and the "compute divide" are reshaping international relations.
Track C: Ethical Infrastructure & Privacy
Why Are Algorithms for Recommendations So Bad?
An editorial on the systemic flaws, feedback loops, and incomplete data that drive modern personalization.
PrivacyThe Ethics of Forgetting
Designing for contextual decay in a digital world that naturally remembers everything forever.
TransparencyAI Transparency & Trust
Opening the black-box of high-stakes financial and educational decision-making systems.
PhilosophyThe Ethics of Digital Immortality
The legal risks and human dignity costs of AI reanimation of deceased users.
Data RightsThe Illusion of Consent
Why modern metadata harvesting has rendered the "Agree" button obsolete.
SustainabilityGreen Code: Efficiency Era
Integrating environmental impact metrics into the modern dev lifecycle.