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If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there’s a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results. And the site is likely to have looked as legitimate as any other.
Below is the working text of my talk to ACRL/NY’s symposium on Money and Power, along with more nuanced answers to questions and comments I received. My ongoing thanks to the organizers, atte…
The FBI has a new view into what’s happening on Twitter. Last week, the bureau hired Dataminr, a Twitter-linked analytics firm, to provide an "advanced alerting tool" to over 200 users. Twitter...
A conversation happened on twitter today that began with the question: I actually have the same questions when it comes to using blogs in research. The current tri-council rules (the ethics guideli…
Algorithmic systems have a way of making mistakes or leading to undesired consequences. Here are five principles to help technologists deal with that.
Update– Please see follow-on posts addressing changes since this post: Nov 13, 2016: “Piazza Response To Blog Post On Student Privacy” Nov 21, 2016: “University Responses to Piazza: Some good, some bad, some web site changes” Dec 21, 2016: “Piazza Makes Three Significant Changes To Deal With Privacy Issues” Piazza is a collaborative question-and-answer platform […]
Writing about “technology and the moral dimension,” tech writer and Gigaom founder, Om Malik made the following observation: “I can safely say that we in tech don’t understand the…
That algorithm does more than you think.
Insurer withdraws initiative with hours to go as privacy campaigners criticise ‘intrusive’ attempt to analyse users’ data
On September 27th, 2016 I was part of a panel titled “Concerns for Data Scholarship” at the Library of Congress’ symposium, Collections As…
When asked whether they care about privacy or are concerned about various kinds of surveillance, many people respond that they "have nothing to hide." What might be hiding behind that response?
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…
In recent years, educational institutions have started using the tools of commercial data analytics in higher education. By gathering information about students
This article is drawn from Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction.
Page from the Center for Solutions to Online Violence. Infographics and a good webliography.