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The ‘Revised Common Rule’ took effect on January 21, 2019, marking the first change since 2005 to the federal regulation that governs human subjects research co
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation and safety. The goal? To find out which other […]
CW: suicide
OMG THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING I WANT TO HUG THEM FOREVER (if they're okay with hugs of course)
In recent years, critical scholarship has drawn attention to increasing power differentials between corporations that use data and people whose data is used. A ...
As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age.
Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.
Information used to gauge opioid overdose risk is unregulated and used without patient consent.
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective—but humans often want multiple incompatible things.
GREAT intro piece.
This book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that examine the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis. Topics include the ethics of data donation, the legal and regulatory challenges, and the current and future collaborations.
A new report says the library should oversee data governance because it is a “long-standing public institution with broad respect in the technology co...
AI pratfalls-through-lateral-thinking.
Computational Social Science (SOC 596), Fall 2016 - soc596_f2016/slides at master · msalganik/soc596_f2016
This paper explores the embedding of data producing technologies in people's everyday lives and practices. It traces how repeated encounters with digital data o...
Last August, Todd Westby’s employees were implanted with microchips. How did they get there? And what the heck does it have to do with vending machines?