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Guest Post: Algorithms and the Death of Democratic Discourse

Guest Post: Algorithms and the Death of Democratic Discourse

By Rachael Bradshaw on July 27, 2021 | Tagged with big data, data, Data, Data Collection, facebook, google, Online Presence, Politics, privacy, Search Engines, Social media, surveillance

Algorithms & The Death of Democratic Discourse  by Christian Koch Our entire digital history  tracked— and is still being tracked. Platforms like Google, Facebook, and others collect data from links clicked, time spent on a particular page, whether or not the content is shared, and even the most seemingly inconsequential choices— all to build pictures […]

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Guest Post: Personalized Personal Lives: Students vs. Filter Bubbles

Guest Post: Personalized Personal Lives: Students vs. Filter Bubbles

By Rachael Bradshaw on February 9, 2021 | Tagged with bias, big data, data, Data Collection, google, Informed Consent, Search Engines

Personalized Personal Lives: Students vs. Filter Bubbles by Joe Wright We’ve all likely seen and been told about how Google’s now seamless integration into our lives sometimes results in a blurring of our lines of privacy, but another hidden tactic of Google (and many other platforms) is ‘personalizing’ the information we’re shown to appeal to […]

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Did Canada just get the ‘Right to be Forgotten’?

Did Canada just get the ‘Right to be Forgotten’?

By bryan short on January 31, 2018 | Tagged with Comic, michael geist, Office of the privacy commissioner, PIPEDA, privacy, reputation, Right to be forgotten, Search Engines

Links: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Draft Position on Online Reputation. Michael Geist’s article in the Globe and Mail and on his blog.

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