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Data protection law has a linear logic, in that it purports to trace the lifecycle of personal data from creation to collection, processing, transfer, and ultim
An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people’s well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.
Gordon Hull & Frank Pasquale, Toward a Critical Theory of Corporate Wellness, BioSocieties (2017).Mary CrossleyThe non-stop growth of employee wellness programs presents a rich teaching (and scholarly) opportunity for health law faculty. We can interrogate the employers’ continued embrace of wellness programs, despite the absence of proven cost savings, and consider concerns about the programs’ purported voluntariness and the heavier burdens they place on workers who find meeting program demands difficult or objectionable. We can explore the evolution of laws (HIPAA [...]
Writer Angela Saini deconstructs the cultural expectations that have meshed with scientific research to reinforce beliefs about male superiority and gender.
Security teams increasingly rely on machine learning and artificial intelligence to protect assets. Will a requirement to explain how they make decisions make them less effective?
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Ethical products and services cannot rely on “checking a box” for the use of customer data because such blanket consent ignores difficult questions about user expectations and the unique risks that data exposure might cause for one individual or group over another.
The objectives of data protection legislation must be described in terms of people, not data. It should also not be about consent, but control.
‘Scientific’ eugenics is grabbing a foothold in respected journals. The claim that these theories are part of a credible debate should worry us all, says Angela Saini, author of Inferior
A late Southern Illinois professor's findings on a potential vaccine for herpes looked promising, until it was revealed he'd proceeded with a risky human trial with no oversight.
Peter Buxtun, like many medical whistleblowers, got little thanks for exposing a notorious scandal
While Contreras acknowledges that the families in these cases should have been kept in the loop, he believes that the destruction of samples and the cessation of research hurt everyone. “Everyone benefits from medical research,” he says.
Vernacular Typography is a digital archive and community-based initiative dedicated to the documetation and preservation of vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment. It seeks to explore, protect, and promote the typographic heritage of local communities around the world that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage.
I have a few quotes in this article; the thrust of my argument is that changing the culture of machine learning research can help mitigate fairness/bias concerns. In this thread I'll elaborate on what I said.https://t.co/mT3EkYLuH9— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) December 21, 2017
We'll get better at explainability.
