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

12 definitions of Big Data

Students were recorded for research—and then became part of a data set that lives forever online, potentially accessible to anyone.

WE WILL ARREST THE REVOLUTION MEMBERS [AT THE JULY 28TH MEETING][tab] "Cancel the meeting! Our cover is blown."

The company’s system for targeting ads is under fire for gender and ethnic bias. In some cases, the cure could be worse than the disease.

What is the Children’s Data and Privacy Online project all about? Professor Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, LSE Dr Mariya Stoilova, Department of Media and Communications, LSE Rishita Nandagiri, Department of Social Policy, LSE “Well we don’t actually know where the information is going. You can sign up for an app and tell […]

We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.

Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) draw non-intuitive and unverifiable inferences and predictions about the behaviors, preferences, and private

Why "earn money from your data!" is a really sucky idea.

Compartmentalizing our distinct personal identities is increasingly difficult in big data reality. Pictures of the person we were on past vacations resurface in employers’ Google searches; LinkedIn which exhibits our income level is increasingly used as a dating web site. Whether on vacation, at work, or seeking romance, our digital selves stream together. One result is that a perennial ethical question about personal identity has spilled out of philosophy departments and into the real world. Ought we possess one, unified identity that coherently integrates the various aspects of our lives, or, incarnate deeply distinct selves suited to different occasions and contexts? At bottom, are we one, or many? The question is not only palpable today, but also urgent because if a decision is not made by us, the forces of big data and surveillance capitalism will make it for us by compelling unity. Speaking in favor of the big data tendency, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg promotes the ethics of an integrated identity, a single version of selfhood maintained across diverse contexts and human relationships. This essay goes in the other direction by sketching two ethical frameworks arranged to defend our compartmentalized identities, which amounts to promoting the dis-integration of our selves. One framework connects with natural law, the other with language, and both aim to create a sense of selfhood that breaks away from its own past, and from the unifying powers of big data technology.

The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.

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 ...

Two sample algorithms reached the same conclusion naturally: They should collude.

As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age.