POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crash Test Dummy, Biometric Passport, Programme For International Student Assessment
6 Apr 2016
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Act like a governance mechanism (removing undesirable content) Credit checks to screen job applicaions o o o o. Creates an idenity for you, whether accurate or not. Forced to talk to public b/c they collect metadata was shared w/ "5 eyes community" Global companies that collect informaion around world - want to bring it back to. The irms make money from this data, and market accordingly. Eu is big on data privacy - ruled protecion ineicient ( "soluion" in progress) Data naionalist believe in state authority, counter argument is that global authority is beter. Moving forward w/ agreements trying to protect people"s privacy. Increasingly government are regulated by numerical indices, other standards, eg. programme for. Internaional student assessment ( pisa), world governance indicators o o o. Honouring treaies makes it easier for a country to establish more treaies. Pisa - go into elementary and secondary schools and rank performance. Transparency an issue - how is the data being measured.
