Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and believe it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked. A majority of Americans believe their online and offline activities are being tracked and monitored by companies and the government with some regularity. It …
Businesses, advertisers, commerce always try to persuade people, you know, always try to change people’s behavior and get them to buy something that they didn’t want to buy so there’s nothing new about this. And of course, that’s true. There is nothing new about our desire to persuade each other to do things that we …
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“The personal data operator plays the role of an intermediary between data sources and data using services within a trust framework or ecosystem with fiduciary responsibility for the individual. It should create trust and open up a user driven market where individuals are both protected and empowered to use the data that organisations hold about …
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This is a detailed and impressive post outlining the many different components required to create a data eco-system that genuinely enables individuals All of the components are listed out and described. Iain has been thinking about this for a long time, so this is a well considered architecture. The My Data Architecture by Iain Henderson …
You’ve probably encountered a pair of shoes that won’t stop following you around the internet, appearing in advertisements on different sites for weeks. While many websites offer a way to opt out of targeted advertisements or unwanted emails, we discovered in our recent research that exercising privacy choices isn’t always easy. But that helped us …
Recommending content, powering chatbots, trading stocks, detecting medical conditions, and driving cars. These are only a small handful of the most well-known uses of artificial intelligence, yet there is one that, despite being on the margins for much of AI’s recent history, is now threatening to grow significantly in prominence. This is AI’s ability to …
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“This paper proceeds from an analysis of the very particular type of vulnerability concomitant with our ‘leaking’ data on a daily basis, to show that data ownership is both unlikely and inadequate as an answer to the problems at stake. We also argue that the current construction of top-down regulatory constraints on contractual freedom is …
Artificial intelligence (AI) has historically been conceptualized in anthropomorphic terms. Some algorithms deploy biomimetic designs in a deliberate attempt to effect a sort of digital isomorphism of the human brain. Others leverage more general learning strategies that happen to coincide with popular theories of cognitive science and social epistemology. In this paper, I challenge the …
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Here is what the latest research suggests about our perception of the value of personal data.