Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore ways to navigate digital spaces while protecting our privacy and exerting agency over our identities and our data. New posts arrive each week from September through December, 2023.
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Choice, Coercion, and Predation
How can we make people aware of the choices they make about their personal data online? It starts with eliminating coercion by companies.
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Looking At The Bigger Picture
Understanding the importance of acquiring the data huge corporations are gaining and using.
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A not so sweet tooth: Cookies and Candy Crush
We are never escaping from cookies and games in this day and age. But we can be more vigilant about our online presence.
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Transactional Transmission of Privacy
The site runners promise users that their right to privacy is important to them while still forcing them to compromise said privacy.
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The Math is not able to Math its variables
The use of computer intelligence to determine value in a person’s success at their job is an example of a larger problem.
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No wonder I hated Math
Cathy O’neil discussed in her book the love for math being the downfall of institutions and the rise of unemployment all over the United States.
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Algorithms: Not So Fair, After All
Math isn’t always fair and unbiased, despite what you may have been taught…and it’s being used to make some very big, very poor decisions.
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Show Us The Numbers
Looking at the big data numbers in depth, and how they may not always tell the whole truth. The information they gather can be misleading.
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It’s Not Just A Game…
Further dive into the topic of surveillance and what that means for a consumer as far as from a game on the phone to accepting “cookies” on the web
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We’re Not Talking About Math Here
Referencing the reading “Weapons of Math Destruction” and the need of algorithm transparency on the internet. What this does, and what this means.