Ch. 8 - Risk

Privacy

Constant surveillance Google, Facebook, Government (cameras,

information..)

Option to agree with data collection is not enough anonnymizing is not enough agreement about purposes what are not developed yet services we not using collecting data (street view)

NSA store 1,7 mil calls, emails every day

Compare to Stasi is way cheaper and easier

1984 Orwell’s novel (Big brother is watching you)

Probability and punishment

Surveillance and big data can bring safety-crime predict But at first all personal data must be stored by GOV System in Richmond can predict crime with 70%

prob.

How to punish predicted crime? Suspicious person have done nothing But no punish gives him another opportunity to try Where to set the border?

Is machine in prediction really as good? What if will predict wrong?

Probability and punishment

Classification groups of people’s profile Can get us on wrong way Focus more on context of individuals Try to involve more essential humanity

GOV is storing all that data about all of us But its not possible to process them all They process anyone, only when get suspicious

“People are the summary of their social relationships, online interactions, and connections with content “

Remind the Minority report movie

Misunderstood of data

Vietnam war Reporting number of killed Vietnamese every day Number of killed doesn’t mean so much in context This number was faked

It depends on underlying data No quality data = no quality resolutions

Correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causality

Compare Google x Apple developing attitude