Category: Topic 2: Surveillance
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Digital Division
Despite promises of a better future, today’s tech perpetuates racial division. We haven’t gotten rid of racism; we’ve just automated it.
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Data’s Traces of Bias Against Minorities
Introduction to The Display Of Bias With Minorities Our readings this week show the ways big data is able to display bias against minorities. The idea of bias towards minorities has been etched into the American culture since the start. Multiple ways the week showed the ways big data is able to display bias against…
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Cookies or no Service
Tracking data through cookies is also within gaming and console digital spaces. Websites have tracking systems but few have opt-out options.
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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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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.