Obfuscation as a Solution to Web 2.0 Data-Mining Threat
Alice Marwick provides useful thoughts on the privacy and data-mining issues surrounding the sharing of personal data on Web 2.0 apps. She shares three common "solutions" to the "problem" of teenagers'...
View ArticleIn Love with Geotagging
The New York Times recently extolled the virtues of using GPS in digital cameras and camera cellphones to "geotag" photos with the location at which they were taken: ...advocates of geotagging, like...
View ArticleWired Editorial: “OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science”
We clearly have entered the era of big data. Armed with petabytes of transaction data, clickstreams and cookie logs, as well as data from social networks, mobile phones, and the “internet of things,” a...
View ArticleALISE Webinar: Ethics in Library Research Data Services
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off"...
View ArticleNew NSF Grant Project: PERVADE — Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational...
I'm thrilled to announce PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), a collaborative, 4-year research project funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study...
View ArticleFunded PhD Position to Join PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational...
[Note: this PhD position is no longer available. See recent posting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate here] Are you a graduate student interested in big data, data ethics, internet research, or...
View ArticleSeeking Postdoctoral Research Associate to Join PERVADE: Pervasive Data...
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project! This is a 12-month position, with possible renewal for a 2nd year....
View ArticleNew article: “Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics: An...
I'm happy to share the (open) publication of a new article "Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics: An Application of Contextual Integrity" in Social Media + Society. In this article, I...
View ArticleHow Contextual Integrity can help us with Research Ethics in Pervasive Data
(I posted this earlier today on the PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research) team's Medium channel) The growth of research projects relying on pervasive data — big datasets about...
View Article