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As governments struggle to understand the problem and how to respond, solutions using data have boomed – from contact tracing mobile apps that collect and share data about our whereabouts or proximity to others, to data dashboards using location data from mobile phone apps and cell towers.
Names are shitty identifiers, part one billion
Be aware of what you’re agreeing to in the privacy policy.
There is increasing concern about “surveillance capitalism,” whereby for-profit companies generate value from data, while individuals are unable to resist (Zubo
The heat map tracks more than two dozen different metrics.
The algorithm only recommended around 18% of black patients for follow-up care, versus 82% of white patients, even when both groups were similarly sick.
In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers conclude that AI is a poor predictor of social outcomes like job loss.
"I want the reckoning to not just be on the backs of the people who were most hurt by it."
On subjective data, why datasets should expire, & data sabotage.
Data review boards are an emerging tool to help companies make responsible decisions about data use, as well as demonstrate their commitment to ethical decision
“Let this be a lesson to other school administrators: if you try to experiment on your campus with racist, invasive surveillance technology, we will come for you. And we don't lose."
CW: brief allusions to violent crimes near the bottom of the post “What does it matter if I have your location pings?! We delete them after 24 hours!” privacy. fucking. matters. We live in an age where privacy should be more important than ever. An age when we have the technologies to track and surveil with alarming precision. And that all exists in a regulatory framework that is—to put it as mildly as possible—totally fucking incapable of protecting the privacy of the average citizen.
There’s nothing easy about data ethics in an age where virtually everything we do leaves a data trail. But to curb the potential for harm—and harness data’s power for good—government CDOs must step up to the challenge.