All the articles telling us big data driven AI was now going to save us after all and we had to get over pre-covid privacy worries. During digital dependency we need privacy more than ever.
There are many ways data can help us but not without careful regulations that make sure it’s protected, safe, effective and for the public good… not just a bunch of companies capitalising on crisis.
“In the end, many hundreds of predictive tools were developed. None of them made a real difference, and some were potentially harmful”
“… many tools were developed either by AI researchers who lacked the medical expertise to spot flaws in the data or by medical researchers who lacked the mathematical skills to compensate for those flaws”
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Yeh, I’d also say the original comment is an example of just those things some academics assume and take for granted about that ‘average plummer’, or whomever it might be not really being capable of grasping their high and mighty ideas…
And not sure which assumptions I’m assumed to have unquestioningly started from and then adhered to, but my experience of academia is one of every assumption I ever had being upturned, constantly and repeatedly.
This misleading propaganda website by @ukhomeoffice which hides its source and aims to deter asylum seekers seems to also raise questions of compliance with UK data law. I recently FOIA’d the @ukhomeoffice on compliance: whatdotheyknow.com/request/726991…
They claim to be compliant with data law… now I’m wondering if this was correct @GeorgeChiesa@RaviNa1k sadly they refused my request for docs on grounds of time/quantity. I will follow up on this…
Political Communication departments please when you are writing your recruitment ads and planning your futures can you try and keep a little open minded? Always you specify scholars who use quantitative methods, data analytics and surveys focused on understanding public 1/
opinion and political behavior… you ask for people studying power by focusing only on the powerless - some of us take a normative position that marginalised communities & indeed the public in general get researched and poked and prodded and experimented on to understand what 2/
makes them tick A LOT already… because we are visible - while powerful people and systems they use to control are not in focus and remain under researched because they are difficult to study and opaque. 3/
As a reminder here are my two articles which were important to reporting on the unfolding events... Thanks again for @davidpugliese amazing reporting and for picking up on what I discovered and sharing it with Canada! occrp.org/en/blog/13225-…
HUGE NEWS breaking on #CambridgeAnalytica parent #SCL’s partnerships in the Passports industry: “three separate introduction agreements were found between Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and Henley & Partners.”
First “dated 25 February 2010, stated that Henley & Partners would act as an introducer for SCL, and would refer potential political client parties to SCL in exchange for a percentage of any resulting revenue from that client.”
“On 22 March that year, Henley & Partners approved the referral agreement with SCL. Another two unsigned agreements, dated August and September 2010, were also found...
3 years ago my #CambridgeAnalytica and #SCL evidence was published by @CommonsDCMS Fake News Inquiry. You cannot know how hard, how terrifying it was. 3 years on I still live, write, publish in constant threat but I grow stronger, fight harder with a little help from my friends.