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St Andrews CS Data Ethics @dataethicssta.bsky.social · Jan 23
🎶 Data Ethics & Privacy playlist 🎶

Some songs (somewhat tangentially) related to our module. Additions welcome! (especially more songs that aren't just about surveillance/privacy)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvA...
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RockwellVEVO
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brianphillips.bsky.social
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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michae.lv
Work and private data are more enmeshed than ever: both in the cloud & on devices. What happens to employee privacy when data access or FOI requests require searching through private info?

New 📄 from @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and me: "Bring Your Own Device—Now Hand It Over!"
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Even though technological advancements can be useful for work- ers who can work remotely, and be at times faster and more efficient, they also pose serious threats to workers’ privacy. In this article, we focus on practices that greatly blur the line between workers’ private life and life at work, such as the practices of ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) and linking cloud storage to per- sonal and work devices. The first of these sees workers allowed to use their per- sonal devices for work-related activities, which can be convenient, familiar, and supportive of flexible working, potentially for several employers. The second of these sees workers using online storage for both personal and professional reas- ons and linking this storage to personal and work devices, which can again be a simple and efficient way to save and backup information and materials. However, practices such as these also present challenges for workers’ privacy, particularly when other legal frameworks are implicated. Employers may have legitimate reasons and a legal basis to request access to, control and search workers’ devices on the basis of, inter alia, data protection, freedom of information, or civil pro- cedural rules. These rules may promote other legitimate goals. However, in this instance, when individuals often do not separate their private and professional activities cleanly within or across devices in a way that can be searched for, the legal regimes in question can pose threats to privacy. These regimes may re- quire analysis of unseparated material through accessing data and devices. The threat to workers’ privacy is obvious. In this article we examine this trend with a primary focus on UK and European law. We propose that workers’ right to private life should be understood as a right to supported separation of work and private contexts and a right to control the process of a search of data and devices.
January 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
I got on Bloomberg News yesterday to talk about AI and the DeepSeek hullabaloo.

You can find my segment starting on minute 58.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh7-...
A Big Day for Tech Earnings | Bloomberg: The Close 1/29/2025
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
dataethicssta.bsky.social
Today we had a gentle introduction to the module by talking about some stories that involved controversial uses of data. I won't post them all, but we started with the Google Photos gorilla tagging story. www.wired.com/story/when-i...
When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind
Google promised a fix after its photo-categorization software labeled black people as gorillas in 2015. More than two years later, it hasn't found one.
www.wired.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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datacontroversies.bsky.social
Controversies in the Data Society Full Programme now available! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers and guests addressing topics from egovernment and digital democracy to climate change resilience and creative authenticity
www.eventbrite.com/cc/controver... @stis-uoe.bsky.social
Controversies in the Data Society 2025
A cross disciplinary series of public lectures and discussions on AI and the datafication of society.
www.eventbrite.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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techwontsave.us
Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it.

This week @hypervisible.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss David Golumbia’s book on cyberlibertarianism.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/261_...
January 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
dataethicssta.bsky.social
Class starts today! Get off the beach and get to work.
tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy tnhh @tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 30
Earlier run as my teaching starts this morning #running
January 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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laurenginsberg.bsky.social
This is also what annoys me about companies selling off articles and books to train AI. I can’t get access to that as a scholar without major fees paid by me or my library system. Why does AI get it?
rcolesworthy.bsky.social Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Jan 28
Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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michae.lv
people can be biased and subjective so let’s use a system to evaluate research outputs and impact whose subjectivity we can more easily forget about!
January 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
dataethicssta.bsky.social
It would be interesting to learn more about these ethical concerns and how they apply to other LLMs as well.

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/u...
U.S. Navy bans use of DeepSeek due to 'security and ethical concerns'
The U.S. Navy issued a warning to its members to avoid using DeepSeek "in any capacity," due to "potential security and ethical concerns."
www.cnbc.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Apple Intelligence’s commitment to writing incomprehensible summaries is unparalleled
“Columbian president condemned something,” notification from X reads
January 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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epic.org
#DataPrivacyDay reminds us about the importance of protecting personal information in our hyperconnected world. EPIC is proud to fight every day for digital transparency, privacy, and data safeguards.

Join us in the privacy movement & protect your data by checking out the data privacy tips below. ⬇️
January 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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openrightsgroup.org
"One future problem is it ends up evolving into a national identity database where every interaction is tracked, which has considerable privacy implications.”

🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the UK government's proposals for a gov.uk app and wallet.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Gov.uk app could lead to ‘mandatory ID scheme’, claim privacy groups
App and wallet would allow people to carry digital versions of key documents such as driving licence on their phones
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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charliebeckett.bsky.social
From the UK 'newspaper' that brought you the Liz Truss lettuce, the 'psycho scumbag chatbots'
January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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ubisurv.net
With all due respect to my British colleagues, the problem of personal #data is not uniquely bad if it's #China that gets it. Losing control over your date to any sufficiently powerful entity is bad, and it's probably worse for your (western) life if say, the insurance industry, gets it.
Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
This morning I read that DeepSeek used training data generated from other language models which has companies like OpenAI fuming, and I can't stop thinking about how there's a lesson in there
January 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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wavesblog.bsky.social
"Deleting the model, removing the personal data requested to be erased, and then retraining the model with the rest of the data is the method that implements the rights in Articles 16-17 of the GDPR effectively" www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...
www.edpb.europa.eu
January 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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lilianedwards.bsky.social
Hugely important UK case on manipulative "consent" obtained by online gambling sites. Not only isn't lawful grounds for data processing on these sites, but huge implications for adtech too - and legitimate interests also probably excluded given interests of data subject.
awo.agency awo.agency @awo.agency · Jan 23
1/ In a groundbreaking ruling, the High Court today found that an online gambling company had unlawfully processed our client’s data. A 🧵 and analysis 👇 on the major implications for data processing in the gambling and AdTech industries.

https://buff.ly/3EiOvQX
Landmark High Court ruling on GDPR consent to profiling and targeting in RTM v Bonne Terre - Analysis
A new data rights agency
www.awo.agency
January 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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techwontsave.us
DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.

In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
October 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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steven.murdoch.is
The government is reviewing the legal presumption that electronic evidence is reliable. I was one of several experts to comment on this news. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666183...
Review of legal rule on computer evidence long overdue, say Post Office scandal victims | Computer Weekly
Computer Weekly talks to people who suffered miscarriages of justice at the hands of flawed computer evidence as well as experts in law and IT, as the government commits to review the legal presumptio...
www.computerweekly.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Again, and again, and…
We're Doing AI Phrenology Again
AI phrenology might be bad, say Ivy League economics professors in 61-page paper about how AI phrenology is accurate.
gizmodo.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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openrightsgroup.org
"We’re concerned about any method that could put people’s data at risk... [which] is incredibly sensitive if it can be linked to porn habits."

There needs to be a specific and enforceable guarantee that age verification systems will be private, safe and secure.

uk.news.yahoo.com/porn-site-uk...
Porn site age checking rules 'could put people at risk of scammers'
Websites that host adult content, including social media sites, will have to put in place age verification systems by this July at the latest.
uk.news.yahoo.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
dataethicssta.bsky.social
🎶 Data Ethics & Privacy playlist 🎶

Some songs (somewhat tangentially) related to our module. Additions welcome! (especially more songs that aren't just about surveillance/privacy)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvA...
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RockwellVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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bengoldacre.bsky.social
We just published a paper on what the new NATIONAL DATA LIBRARY should look like.

It's very readable!

Lots on: accountability.. federated analytics.. code.. modular tools..

Thanks to @wellcometrust and @ESRC who ran a competition for these papers!

zenodo.org/records/1467...
A National Data Library: the Modular Approach
The UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge, initiated by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), sought visionary approaches to enhancing access to UK public s...
zenodo.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM