[liberationtech] Big data ethics

[dan mcquillan]

this looks like a great read.

as an alternative to focusing on the data, we could look at the emergent
social formations & what (if anything) can be done.

in this seminar i used giorgio agamben's "state of exception" as a way in
to the issues, and rather than a hopeful statement about ethics i picked up
ep thompson's idea of the 'moral economy' (sounds similar to ethics but
with roots in real social struggle; rural food riots of the late eighteenth
century!)

http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20140211_550&quality=high

(sorry no written version yet)

cheers
dan




On 2 March 2014 16:19, Paul Bernal (LAW) <Paul.Bernal at uea.ac.uk> wrote:

>  The academic article behind it is also online, here:
>
>  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384174
>
>  It's a good piece, I think!
>
>  Paul
>
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>  On 2 Mar 2014, at 15:39, David Johnson <David.Johnson at aljazeera.net>
> wrote:
>
>  Here's a nice piece by Neil Richards and Jonathan King on developing
> norms for dealing with big data ...
>
>  http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/gigabytes-gone-wild.html
>
>   *The values we build or fail to build into our new digital structures
> will define us. If we don't balance the human values that we care about --
> such as privacy, confidentiality, transparency, identity and free choice --
> with the compelling uses of big data, our society risks abandoning them for
> the sake of mere innovation or expediency.*
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David
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