MDST*1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Search Algorithm, Big Data, Social Network
Copyright and Digital Citizenship
Drakopoulou, Grossman, and Moore, "Campaign for Digital Citizenship"; Frase,
"Property and Theft"; Mueller, "Gimme the Loot."
Threats to what’s good about the internet
-At first users experienced the internet as a collaborative and creative space.
-What began as a distributed network has become increasingly centralised:
anyone can still set up a website or create a new application that runs on the
internet, but for many the ‘internet’ is Facebook or the apps on their mobile
phone.
-Dominance of internet by big data and data analytics, the ‘Internet of Things,’
smart cities and machine learning combined with the ever-tightening restrictions
of copyright law and censorship threaten to turn us all from digital citizens into
technology consumers.
-The public doesn’t know how and under what conditions and processes their
private data - age, gender, browsing history, status updates, clicks and likes - are
turned into statistical data and ‘audience commodities’ that are bought and sold.
-No legislation at the global level to protect rights of internet users.
-The (IP) address allocated by ISPs (Internet Service Provider) identifies users by
name, address, and/or govt ID numbers.
-Companies + governments worldwide can freely use data that comes from
specific ISP addresses without the users’ consent, knowledge or awareness.
-Although many ask users for permission - i.e. to click – before they accept
cookies, when people click there is little explanation of the actual use of the
metadata that derives from their various activities, or how profits are extracted
from that information.
3 Types of Data:
1. Personal Data:
- Data that involves and identifies a particular individual is personal data.
-Includes the data that companies like Google and Facebook collect about
each of their users – social graphs, searches, status updates, financial
and medical data.
2. Open Data:
-Data that belongs in the public domain and can be freely used and
adapted by civilians, companies and government.
-Can take the form of data released by the government such as census
data.
-Can take the form of data released by individuals and companies of data
such as GPS coordinates or aggregated statistical data.
-Open data is generally welcomed by those interested in digital citizenship
but there’s concern about the abuse of the masses of personal data
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Document Summary
Drakopoulou, grossman, and moore, "campaign for digital citizenship"; frase, At first users experienced the internet as a collaborative and creative space. The public doesn"t know how and under what conditions and processes their private data - age, gender, browsing history, status updates, clicks and likes - are turned into statistical data and audience commodities" that are bought and sold. No legislation at the global level to protect rights of internet users. The (ip) address allocated by isps (internet service provider) identifies users by name, address, and/or govt id numbers. Companies + governments worldwide can freely use data that comes from specific isp addresses without the users" consent, knowledge or awareness. Data that involves and identifies a particular individual is personal data. Includes the data that companies like google and facebook collect about each of their users social graphs, searches, status updates, financial and medical data: open data:
