login/register

Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Channels > HCI stuff > privacy and data control

Order by: date | title | url | snip    Show: just this cat | subcats too

2016-04-11 07:58:30     Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

http://fusion.net/st.../internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ...
Which happe

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control
/Channels/maps and geography

2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/intelligent interfaces
/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control

2016-04-10 14:26:03     How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../477423/?...

Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control

2015-05-26 07:15:50     Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...sitors-breaching-eu-law-report

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control
/Channels/techie/social networking

2016-03-22 21:54:11    

https://aeon.co/...t-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control

2016-12-06 14:33:06     Solid

https://solid.mit.edu/

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berner... the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Co... Institute. The project aims to radically change the way ... work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as ...

view snip

/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control
/Channels/techie/open data

2016-04-29 09:54:19    

https://theintercept.com/...ekness-fear-and-self-censorship/

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Report...

view snip

/Channels/digital economy
/Channels/HCI stuff/privacy and data control

Order by: date | title | url | snip    Show: just this cat | subcats too