Algorithms, Data Mining, and Profiling

Class 
1. Reports on Andrews and Silverman

2. Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad, “How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy”

3. How bad is it? Check:

• This advertising from data-aggregator Acxiom: https://vimeo.com/166527182 and its accompanying handout: https://www.acxiom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BRO-AbiliTec_web.pdf

• "Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens"

4. Tufecki, “We’re building a dystopia”

For Next Class
Complete the first draft of Essay 2

• Instructions and questions for Essay 2 here:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tNfsmdYyhrLdAn8zfUJd-1avBLsRl_9FNB2greQOp0Y/edit?usp=sharing
• Copy of Icebreaker Questions:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yQbdsOryAJEVIrDDAOXPUrmUFv9_4CEF9ni2suFbd4/edit?usp=sharing

Ongoing 
New readings here:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRxI_VBRxZzbZMwen3xaVtEGUnfJpVyu/view?usp=sharing

• Choose either Lützow-Holm Myrstad or Tufecki  and write a journal entry on his/her TED Talk
• Read Greenwald, “Why privacy matters” and write a journal entry on his TEDTalk

10/22: The Web and Privacy, continued

Class 
1. Watch "What Your Smart Devices Know and Share about You."
https://www.ted.com/talks/kashmir_hill_and_surya_mattu_what_your_smart_devices_know_and_share_about_you/discussion?rss=172BB350-0370

Discuss: Essay 2: Reflection Questions for Wikipedia assignment
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tNfsmdYyhrLdAn8zfUJd-1avBLsRl_9FNB2greQOp0Y/edit?usp=sharing

For Next Class
Read  Andrews, “George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg” and Silverman, “The Reputation Racket”

Essay 2 is due on Tuesday.