Please watch this presentation by Kate Crawford and answer the following questions in your first online discussion post. This talk is from 2013 but it lays the groundwork for our inquiry into how current law informs data analytics. It also introduces the importance of ethics and thinking about how ethics should inform "big data."
1. How does "big data" create privacy challenges.
2. How does "big data" create challenges of bias, or discrimination.
For both questions, please provide examples from the talk and also share your thoughts about what was surprising, interesting or striking about those examples.
Discussion Instructions
Ten times during the quarter, you must participate in a discussion on the Canvas discussion page.
You will be assigned to a small discussion group of three or four (you and 2 or 3 peers).
You must contribute two posts minimum to get the full points. You must contribute a one-paragraph answer to the original question(s)(one paragraph per question), and then one response to one of your peer's original post. If you like you can respond to all or your peers and also if you like you may reply to each comment.
Your original post is due by the end of the day Friday. Your response to one of your peers (or more) is due the following Sunday. Note that the due date reflects the date that all of your posts are due. You must post your original answer(s) in order to get access to your peers'.
You should consider this a kind of group project. So if one member of the group is not doing his/her post, that will affect others in the group, and you need to decide how to deal with that. As a last resort, you may notify an instructor that one of your group members is not participating, and we will adjust the grades. You will not be able to give responses or see other peer’s posts until you post an original comment.
The maximum grade is 2.0, and since there are 10 discussions, there are 20 points possible on this portion of your grade. Each set of discussion contributions is graded in accordance with the discussion rubric which can be found by clicking the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of this window. The first two components (quantity, grammar and appropriateness) are applied to your original post and the second two (reflection and engagement) to your peer comments.
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