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Faced with an ever-shrinking pool of potential applicants, admissions officials are increasingly turning to tracking software to hit enrollment targets.
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
Google has 50M people's medical records but won't merge them with other Google data.
Understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet.
Shows risks of making decisions using data that reflects inequities in American society.
A health care algorithm reflects underlying racial bias in society
How machine learning fails.
UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account big tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human rights free-zones’
"Opting out by withholding consent is rarely a realistic option given the compulsory nature of primary and secondary education and the competitive pressure on students to obtain credentials from higher education institutions to ensure future opportunities."
Content analysis of ethics codes. Could be really interesting in Week 1.
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show.
In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.
Major critique of "nudging" practices.
It’s not the only way, but it’s the easiest.
Following an investigation into Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ use of Gale Analytics on Demand, a California grand jury reported on June 24 that the use of data analytics tools by libraries “is a potential threat to patron privacy and trust.”
Nice application of schools of ethics to ethical reasoning, and why "an ethics code" doesn't solve the problem.
We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to understand, explain, and improve the things we care about.