Below are posts associated with the “data” tag.
🔗 linkblog: You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy | WIRED'
Some important—if disheartening—observations from Marwick.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'German Police Caught Using COVID-Tracing Data To Search For Crime Witnesses | Techdirt'
Contract tracing is good, but apps for it are scary. Ugh.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Report - Legal Loopholes and Data for Dollars: How Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies Are Buying Your Data from Brokers - Center for Democracy and Technology'
This report sounds terrifying. Even the Capitol rioters deserve some freedom from this kind of surveillance.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Security Researcher Finds Facebook App Tracking iPhone Movements'
Accelerometer data can be used for invasive tracking, and Facebook seems to be doing so. This is truly scary stuff.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Predictive analytics in child welfare raise concerns - Youth Today'
We need data to make decisions, but predictive analytics tend to give me the heebie jeebies.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Location data harvesting is scary stuff.
🔗 linkblog: just read '7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent | ZDNet'
We ought to be talking more about biometric data.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Amazon Astro Leaks Data All Over New Carpet'
Well played, The Onion. Well played.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Majority of Americans support national data privacy standards: poll | TheHill'
This means we’re going to get some soon, right?
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn? | Ars Technica'
Gotta admit that I’d never thought about what we should do about algorithms trained on data that’s subject to a deletion request. Interesting article.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
Cory Doctorow has THOUGHTS about data. I may use this in my data science class this semester.