Big Data

Religious Data Platform ‘Targets Vulnerable People’ For Recruitment To Radical Right

September 29, 2020 Deutsche Welle. Educate! Big Data, churches, Facebook, Right wing politics

Katharina Gellein: Charles was the special adviser to the UK's Select Committee on fake news that started in 2017, and I wanted to make a film about fake news. Charles was the first person to walk through the door in Parliament and sit down and say to the MPs: "Cambridge Analytica." This was when everybody was sort of at the level of, "Oh, isn't Facebook a nice thing and isn't that good?" And then of course, shortly after that, [Cambridge Analytica whistleblower] Chris Wiley came with his evidence and the whole case just blew the doors open.

Facebook Told My Followers I Was Spreading Misinformation About Government Surveillance

May 24, 2020 Evan Greer, Medium. Educate! Big Data, Censorship, Facebook, Mass Surveillance

There is no silver bullet solution that will stop the spread of online misinformation without resulting in collateral damage and censorship of legitimate content and marginalized voices. Instead of calling for more aggressive moderation, we should address the problem at its root: Big Tech companies’ underlying business model of data harvesting, micro-targeting, and artificial algorithmic amplification maximized for engagement above all else. These inherent flaws have become societal crises as a tiny handful of companies have become so large that their policies become de facto law for the entire Internet, something that can only be addressed by either breaking them up or building decentralized alternatives.

Google Secretly Harvests The Health Data Of Millions

November 30, 2019 Julienne Tveten, Truthdig.com Educate! Big Data, Google, Health Care

Google has been harvesting the health data of tens of millions of U.S. patients since 2018, unbeknownst to those patients or their doctors, as revealed by a Nov. 11 investigation by the Wall Street Journal. According to the story, Ascension, a private network of some 2,600 hospitals and other health care facilities, had been systematically feeding the medical information to Google’s cloud infrastructure in what amounts to the largest data transfer in the health care field. Google, in turn, plans to “suggest” changes to patients’ care, possibly via machine learning.

Data For Democracy Harnesses The Powers Of Big Data For Civic Good

November 6, 2018 By Patrick W. Zimmerman, Shareable.net Create! Big Data, Electoral Politics, Immigration

Data for Democracy is a grassroots community dedicated to using the tools of Data Science to create a positive social impact. Imagine a bunch of digital activists running around the Internet analyzing alt-right Twitter bot networks and collecting data on immigration and family separations for the National Immigration Law Center, and you'll have a pretty good idea what this group does. Its roughly 3,400 members include both tech experts like mathematicians, software engineers, and data scientists, as well as a wide range of social scientists: anthropologists, political scientists, lawyers, and historians.

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