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Terms of Service, Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data
Big Data powers the modern world. With tools like FitBit tracking our every step and supercomputers like IBM’s Watson helping Memorial Sloan Kettering treat cancer patients, we literally live it. Between our social media profiles, browsing histories, discount programs, and new tools like Nest controlling our energy use, there’s no escape.
Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data, a free graphic novel by Michael Keller & Josh Neufeld.
Metadata: A Virtual View of the Real You
The data trail created by everyday interactions generates a compelling profile you can’t control. Here’s a simple scenario: you make two phone calls over a one-week period to a veterinary clinic. What does that tell someone who’s got access to your call history?
Who’s Collecting Kids’ Personal Data? Lots of People
Laura Owen home schools her 13-year-old, Faith, in an affluent suburb of Columbus, Ohio.* She takes extraordinary measures to shield her daughter’s online identity from marketers and what she describes as America’s “toxic” culture for teens.
How internet advertisers read your mind
The data we generate online has spawned a complex new ecosystem of firms tracking, interpreting and selling our data to advertisers. This raises privacy concerns for consumers.
What is a digital shadow
Explore and minimise your ‘digital shadows’: the information traces you leave behind when you use the internet and mobile phones.
Discrimination drives the need for ethics in big data
Big data and analytics are profoundly affecting the world around us. One of the focal points of my postings has been how big data and analytics affects, specifically, our personal privacy. An old and perhaps far too familiar twist on this has risen to the forefront of discussion and that is the issue of whether big data and analytics will be used to discriminate against the less fortunate (or perhaps even “the one percent”).
Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future
The key decisions that shape people’s lives—decisions about jobs, healthcare, housing, education, criminal justice and other key areas—are, more and more often, being made automatically by computers. As a result, a growing number of important conversations about civil rights, which focus on how these decisions are made, are also becoming discussions about how computer systems work.
Earlier this year, a path-breaking coalition of major civil rights and media justice organizations released the Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data, highlighting how the growing use of digital surveillance, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making impacts core civil rights concerns. We served as technical advisors to that coalition.
Big Data Has Potential to Both Hurt and Help Disadvantaged Communities
In the future, all aspects of daily urban life might be tracked and translated into data points. Local governments and companies collecting this type of information are already testing out potential uses. According to some watchdogs, without a holistic look at how data collection and algorithms impact different communities, this has the potential to reinforce already rigid structural barriers to economic and physical mobility.
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