Is Google an ethical technology?
Google is not a search company, or a web services company, it is an advertising company.
Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you.
Google records your location even when you tell it not to.
Google reportedly bought Mastercard data to link online ads with offline purchases.
The “Google Graveyard“.
Is Facebook an ethical technology?
We have no choice but to accept how Facebook supports (or does not support) linking, searching, archiving, exporting… Features appear and disappear.
Facebook’s revenue is derived from advertising and selling the data of its users.
In the study, a computer could more accurately predict the subject’s personality than a work colleague by analysing just ten Likes; more than a friend or a cohabitant (roommate) with 70, a family member (parent, sibling) with 150, and a spouse with 300 Likes. — “Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family”, University of Cambridge Research
“Filter bubbles”
Facebook: Blue Feed – Red Feed
Google is finally admitting it has a filter-bubble problem
“Fake news”
The city getting rich from fake news
Facebook to End News Feed Experiment in 6 Countries That Magnified Fake News
Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook’s effect on election
Surveillance Capitalism
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
How companies turn your Facebook activity into a credit score
Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV
Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
Spying
China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region
China’s terrifying “social credit” surveillance system is expanding
Spyware’s Odd Targets: Backers of Mexico’s Soda Tax
Spyware in Mexico Targeted Investigators Seeking Students
Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement — for a fistful of dollars
Service Workers Forced to Act Like Robots Meet Their Match
In education
“Algorithms get layered on top of these existing structures. And artificial intelligence comes with deep, deep biases – biases at the very core of the discipline. Racism. Sexism. Biases in language and in image recognition. Biases based on the training data. Biases that comes from the engineers.” – “The Weaponization of Education Data” – Audrey Watters
The cases against personalized learning
It’s Time to Make Student Privacy a Priority
University of Edinburgh, Learning Analytics Principles and Purposes (PDF), available at: https://www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/projects/learning-analytics-policy
