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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Privacy Versus The 'Tyranny Of The Algorithm' - 0 views

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  • A recent study looked at more than 500,000 tweets about depression, took 4,000 tweets that mentioned a diagnosis or medication, and followed those Twitter users in order to create an app that predicts suicide. This use of tweets crosses a line, Peel said. "This is far more intrusive" than standard data-gathering from social media.
  • Medical data is also valuable to criminals
  • Criminals are after electronic medical records, as well as prescriptions and insurance information to pay for their own medical expenses or to acquire prescription drugs illegally.
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  • David Vladeck, former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Protection Bureau
  • It's what I call the tyranny of the algorithm," Vladeck said. "What happens on the Internet is driven by algorithms. There are ethical constraints that need to be debated."
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Jul 15
     
    article by Kelly Jackson Higgins at Dark Reading.com on what's happening with the sale of online data collected legally, but not necessarily analyzed accurately or sold ethically. November 5, 2014
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The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization | TechCrunch - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Jul 15
     
    interesting assessment of algorithmic limitations in providing us with access to the online information we really want, Jarno M. Koponen, June 25, 2015. reminds of comment I saw "tyranny of algorithms"
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Living by the Numbers: A Tyranny of Data? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - 0 views

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  • So far, many companies have tried to dispel such fears by noting that the data they gather, store and analyze remains "anonymous." But that, as it turns out, is not entirely accurate, in that it sells the power of data analysis radically short. Take the analysis of anonymous movement profiles, for example. According to a current study by the online journal Scientific Reports, our mobility patterns are so different that that they can be used to "uniquely identify 95 percent of the individuals." The more data is in circulation and available for analysis, the more likely it is that anonymity becomes "algorithmically impossible," says Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan. In his blog, Narayanan writes that only 33 bits of information are sufficient to identify a person.
  • A study by New York advertising agency Ogilvy One concludes that 75 percent of respondents don't want companies to store their personal data, while almost 90 percent were opposed to companies tracking their surfing behavior on the Internet.
  • Is it truly desirable for cultural assets like TV series or music albums to be tailored to our predicted tastes by means of data-driven analyses? What happens to creativity, intuition and the element of surprise in this totally calculated world?
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  • But for a modern society, an even more pressing question is whether it wishes to accept everything that becomes possible in a data-driven economy. Do we want to live in a world in which algorithms predict how well a child will do in school, how suitable he or she is for a specific job -- or whether that person is at risk of becoming a criminal or developing cancer?
  • Users, of course, "voluntarily" relinquish their data step by step, just as we voluntarily and sometimes revealingly post private photos on Facebook or air our political views through Twitter. Everyone is ultimately a supplier of this large, new data resource, even in the analog world, where we use loyalty cards, earn miles and rent cars.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Jul 15
     
    #7 in a series on big data by Martin Muller, Marcel Rosenback and Thomas Schulz
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Google's Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency | WIRED - 0 views

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  • So even at an order of magnitude smaller than the experimental effect, VMP could have serious consequences. “Four to 8 percent would get any campaign manager excited,” says Brian Keegan, a computational social scientist at Harvard Business School. “At the end of the day, the fact is that in a lot of races it only takes a swing of 3 or 4 percent. If the search engine is one or two percent, that’s still really persuasive.”
  • as Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain has proposed—Facebook didn’t push the “vote” message to a random 61 million users? Instead, using the extensive information the social network maintains on all its subscribers, it could hypothetically push specific messaging to supporters or foes of specific legislation or candidates. Facebook could flip an election; Zittrain calls this “digital gerrymandering.” And if you think that companies like the social media giants would never do such a thing, consider the way that Google mobilized its users against the Secure Online Privacy Act and PROTECT IP Act, or “SOPA-PIPA.
  • tempting to think of algorithms as the very definition of objective, they’re not. “It’s not really possible to have a completely neutral algorithm,” says Jonathan Bright, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute who studies elections.
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  • Add the possibility of search rank influence to the individualization Google can already do based on your gmail, google docs, and every other way you’ve let the company hook into you…combine that with the feedback loop of popular things getting more inbound links and so getting higher search ranking…and the impact stretches way beyond politics.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Aug 15
     
    Adam Rogers, Science, Wired, 8.6.15, writes about how the Google tanking algorithm of positive and negative stories on the candidates could affect major elections 25% of the timer. This is the tyranny of the algorithm. They tested the impact in mock voter labs before elections in Australia and India where the impact of feeding positive stories about a candidate first shaped voters decisions between 24 and 72 percent of the time with certain voter groups. Voters in towns in the US that watch a local a Fox channel vote more conservatively because of recency and placement issues. While the numbers in real live do not add up to the impact achieved in the test research, when elections are decided by 1 or 2 percentage points, it's enough to turn the tide in favor of a candidate.
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No Room for Dissent in Women's Movement Today - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 May 17
     
    article by Cleta Mitchell, April 2, 2017, on how feminism limits women's views.
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