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When Big Data Marketing Becomes Stalking - Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • but we do know that third-party data brokers sell all manner of information to businesses, including “police officers’ home addresses, rape sufferers, and genetic disease sufferers” as well as suspected alcoholics and cancer and HIV/AIDS patients.
  • The first is that almost everything is personal. In the words of computer scientists Arvind Narayanan (Princeton
  • this model simply doesn’t reflect the reality of the deeply unequal situation we now face. Those who wield the tools of data tracking and analytics have far more power than those who don’t.
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  • narrow focus on individual responsibility is not enough. The scale of the problem far exceeds the individual: it is systemic. We are now faced with large-scale experiments on city streets where people are in a state of forced participation, without any real ability to negotiate the terms, and often without the knowledge their data is being collected.
  • We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries and regulation for location data technologies.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Jul 15
     
    Great article on inability of big data marketing brokers failing to regulate themselves by Kate Crawford, January 28, 2014. Individuals can do little to protect themselves or opt-out.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Networks Are Revolutionizing Scientific (and Maybe Human) Thought - Scientific Amer... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Jan 16
     
    interesting article on how networks of digital and human connections change us
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