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Information used to gauge opioid overdose risk is unregulated and used without patient consent.
Nature Electronics - Europe’s data protection laws must evolve to guard against pervasive inferential analytics in nascent digital technologies such as edge computing.
"Like most technologies, machine learning is neutral." Yeah, that is some bullshit right there.
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...
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...
We live in a surveillance society. Our every preference, inquiry, whim, desire, relationship, and fear can be seen, recorded, and monetized by thousands of
The fight against surveillance capitalism and mass state surveillance has reached a tipping point, the peak-indifference moment, when new privacy advocates are self-radicalizing as they witness fir…
Privacy professionals find themselves in an age where data ethics have become part of the global conversation, receiving unprecedented attention worldwide. Just
Visiting your doctor isn't the same as logging into Facebook, but for how long? The growth in health data is leading some experts to call for a new "social contract" — a fresh negotiation of trust between patients and the groups that want their most intimate information.
Despite the growing presence of algorithms in daily life, the U.S. public expresses broad concerns over the fairness and effectiveness of computer programs making important decisions.
Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate the power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.
Privacy is not a property right in personal information. Assigning property rights over personal information to the user and letting the marketplace decide what happens next is a bad idea.
The average American, one study tell us, touches their phone 2,600 times per day.
Verizon-owned Oath is pitching a service to advertisers analyzing AOL and Yahoo emails to provide targeted ad data, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Google's data-tracking practices are the subject of a study that found even private web browsing leaves a trace and consumers are being watched everywhere.
Algorithms alone can’t meaningfully hold other algorithms accountable
This research exposes how much data Google is collecting about consumers and their most personal habits across all of its products.
In May 2008, Facebook announced what initially seemed like a fun, whimsical addition to its platform: People You May Know.
Notably, these criteria for exclusion focus on the status of the dataset (e.g., is it public? does it already exist?), not the content of the dataset nor what will be done with the dataset, which are more accurate criteria for determining the risk profile of the proposed research.