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Can data brokers be trusted to regulate themselves?
Last summer, Facebook received terrible press for running experiments on its users, adjusting the proportion of happy and unhappy posts at the top of people’s news feeds to see how that effected their moods. Shortly after that controversy surfaced, OKCupid founder Christian Rudder proudly announced “we experiment on human beings.” [...]
“State healthcare laws are all over the place; it is fun; it’s why we’re all here,” said Web Hull, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, privacy, data protection, compliance advisor
Redlining and other unjust uses of big data.
Apps and other software can put powerful teaching tools at teachers’ fingertips, but concerns abound over data security, effectiveness and marketing.
From Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.
Computer scientists study Twitter to try to understand how people change their use of social media as they make major life changes, like getting engaged or divorced.
Nice real-world example of how to think through ethics of data release.
Don't believe every number that you encounter.
Leslie Knope just battled a tech company who looks a lot like the data-miners of today.
"FIPPs" a useful idea here.
Obama's proposed Student Digital Privacy Act aims to limit what schools can do with data collected from apps used in K-12 classrooms. But college students are just as vulnerable to privacy violations.
Alex Howard comments on questions about ethics and ethos in an age of exponential technological change.
A Hack Education Project
Yesterday Uber again caught the eye of the public when surge pricing went into effect in Sydney, Australia, during a hostage situation with people trying to leave the area. Keeping in mind that the…