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The destination and rules of the road are clear; the route you choose to get there makes a huge difference.
Consider a catalog for a small public library that features a way to sort search results by popularity. There are several ways to measure “popularity” of a book: circulations, hold requ…
This article is drawn from Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction.
Last week I was preparing a talk about instructional technology in the modern university and I wanted to illustrate how IT can make a large lecture hall feel like a small seminar. I wanted to crea…
Mass surveillance and predictive policing are all the rage. And in the act of performing identity online, ordinary people help make the world more machine-readable. Why do we play along?
Research librarians have a unique role to play in assisting technical researchers as they navigate emerging issues of privacy, ethics, and equitable a
With predictive analytics, colleges and universities are able to “nudge” individuals toward making better decisions and exercising rational behavior t
Humans have ingrained unconscious biases. So do the algorithms they create.
Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you.
Algorithms, Like People, Discriminate Too
What can be guessed about you from your online behavior? Two computer privacy experts — economist Alessandro Acquisti and computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck — on how little we know abo…
There's very little oversight in the industry of data brokers, but they can affect health care costs, college acceptance and whether or not someone gets a home loan.
Let’s just say it: In the future, successful data companies will not own any data.
In discussions about privacy and big data and the secondary uses of data, I have observed that a number of distinct concepts are oftentimes confused or treated