Tag: huge data

• The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying.

  December 7, 2023

  Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap… more ›

• Data isn’t oil, so what is it?

  May 16, 2021

  All these metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources – lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely… more ›

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

  February 10, 2021

  In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The… more ›

• The Coup We Are Not Talking About

  January 31, 2021

  In an information civilization, societies are defined by questions of knowledge — how it is distributed, the authority that governs its distribution and the power that protects that authority. Who… more ›

• Data lakes: where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day

  October 23, 2019

  Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”.… more ›

• How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

  October 3, 2019

  The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come… more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›

• Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

  August 20, 2019

  In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized. https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/ more ›

• Data Ethics is important

  June 2, 2019

  The May issue of Admap puts the spotlight on data ethics. According to the Open Data Institute, data ethics is “a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the… more ›

• Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

  April 17, 2019

  According to the description, “These advertisers are running ads using a contact list they or their partner uploaded that includes info about you. This info was collected by the advertiser… more ›