bowdoin: data driven socities 2014 - the search engine & the search for privacy 2/12/14
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Data Driven Societies Digital & Computational Studies Bowdoin College February 12, 2014 Professors Gieseking & Gaze Lecture Slides "The Search Engine & the Search for Privacy"TRANSCRIPT
Data Driven Societies: The Search Engine &the Search for PrivacyProfessors Gaze & Gieseking
Big Data & Privacy (recap)
✦ Ethical research !
✦ Data sample and data access
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✦ Defining big data, defining privacy…
daily.captaindash.com
Searching the Engine / for Privacy
✦ Filter bubble, machine learning, privacy ✦ Team exercise on blog posts ✦ Begin lab ✦ Quiz
Algorithms: the good, the bad, & the (supposedly) ugly
On being captain of your own destiny
Girl-in-the-bubble photo by Mike Renlund used under a Creative Commons license.
Filter bubble - predictive engines that use machine learning to constantly create and refine an idea of who you are, what you do, and what you will do next (Pariser 2011) !
Machine learning - training a computer to recognize patterns !
Testing the Filter BubbleGo to amazon.com & login (if you have one). Under Your Account, choose Recommendations for You. Does what you see represent *you*?
Defining Privacy
In US Constitutional Law, the right of people to make personal decisions regarding intimate matters.
Under the Common Law (from courts/legal decisions), the right of people to lead their lives in a manner that is reasonably secluded from public scrutiny.
In statutory law (from regulations/laws), the right of people to be free from invasion of privacy such as unwarranted drug testing and Electronic Surveillance.
Next Class: Feb. 17✦ Today: filter bubble, machine learning, privacy
✦ Blog comment: type up your notes from your presentation of your peer’s post today as a comment (2-3 paragraphs)
✦ Readings: Donovan, Odewahn, & Golbeck
✦ Next class: ✦ private/public ✦ networks 101 ✦ lab & quiz follow-up