Suggests (to me at least) that there might be a
business opportunity for services that can prove they don't invade
your privacy. Big Brother is not inevitable.
New Study –
Americans Losing Battle on Privacy Rights
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 7, 2015
The
Tradeoff Fallacy – How Marketers Are Misrepresenting American
Consumers and Opening Them Up to Exploitation – Joseph Turow,
Ph.D.; Michael Hennessy, Ph.D; Nora Draper, Ph.D. June 2015. A
Report from the Anneberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania.
“New Annenberg survey results indicate that
marketers are misrepresenting a large majority of Americans by
claiming that Americans give out information about themselves as a
tradeoff for benefits they receive. To the contrary, the
survey reveals most Americans do not believe that ‘data for
discounts’ is a square deal. The findings also suggest,
in contrast to other academics’ claims, that Americans’
willingness to provide personal information to marketers cannot be
explained by the public’s poor knowledge of the ins and outs of
digital commerce. In fact, people who know more about ways marketers
can use their personal information are more likely rather than less
likely to accept discounts in exchange for data when presented with a
real-life scenario. The
findings, instead, support a new explanation: a majority of Americans
are resigned to giving up their data—and that is why many appear to
be engaging in tradeoffs. Resignation
occurs when a person believes an undesirable outcome is inevitable
and feels powerless to stop it. Rather than feeling able
to make choices, Americans believe it is futile to manage what
companies can learn about them. The study reveals that more than
half do not want to lose control over their information but also
believe this loss of control has already happened.”
“We can, therefore we must!” Will this rise
above “annoying?”
Eryk Bagshaw reports:
Sydney schools are employing “big brother” data collection technology to track whether students are finishing their homework, skipping classes as well as how much their parents are likely to donate.
This week it was revealed that 34 schools in NSW – including The King’s School and Barker College – were using software that allowed them to track how much parents were likely to donate based on the amount and type of emails they sent, the wealth of the suburb they live in, their volunteering efforts, and community involvement.
Read more on Brisbane
Times.
[From the
article:
Every time a student opens a textbook on their
tablet or laptop in the digital textbook library, their school and
teachers are able to track their movements.
… The program creates a mountain of data on
how, when and where different types books are being read not only for
schools, teachers, and pupils, but for text book publishers - an
industry worth about $620 million in Australia.
… Calendars, cancellations, school notices,
school information, school timetables, parent sick note forms and
school documents are all digitised, their data kept so that a
student's attendance or lack thereof can be mapped and patterns drawn
out of it.
… "Right now individual teachers
might not spot a student struggling in one class if they
only see them a couple of times a week," Dr Timms said.
[Australia must have really
bad teachers. Bob]
… But there remain concerns over just how
schools will keep all this data secure.
Oh, that's Okay then.
Google: The
artificial intelligence we're working on won't destroy humanity
(Related) I've blogged about automating legal
services before. (I can't find the part that says “In the future,
lawyers will be loved.”)
How Machine
Intelligence Will Transform the Role of Lawyers in the Delivery of
Legal Services
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 7, 2015
The
Great Disruption: How Machine Intelligence Will Transform the Role of
Lawyers in the Delivery of Legal Services, John O. McGinnis &
Russell G. Pearce, Fordham Law Review, Volume 82, No. 6. May 2015,
pps 3041-3066.
“Law
is an information technology—a code that regulates
social life. In our age, the
machinery of information technology is growing exponentially in
power, not only in hardware, but also in the software
capacity of the programs that run on computers. As a result, the
legal profession faces a great disruption. Information technology
has already had a huge impact on traditional journalism, causing
revenues to fall by about a third and employment to decrease by about
17,000 people in the last eight years and very substantially
decreasing the market value of newspapers. Because law consists of
more specialized and personalized information, the disruption is
beginning in law after journalism. But, its effects will be as wide
ranging. Indeed they may ultimately be greater, because legal
information is generally of higher value, being central to the
protection of individuals’ lives and property. The
disruption has already begun. In discovery, for instance,
computationally based services are already replacing the task of
document review that lawyers have performed in the past. But
computational services are on the cusp of substituting for other
legal tasks—from the generation of legal documents to predicting
outcomes in litigation. And when
machine intelligence becomes as good as lawyers in
developing some service or some factor of production that contributes
to a service, it does not
stop improving. Intelligent machines will become better
and better, both in terms of performance and cost. And unlike
humans, they can work ceaselessly around the clock, without sleep or
caffeine. Such continuous technological acceleration in
computational power is the difference between previous technological
improvements in legal services and those driven by machine
intelligence. This difference makes it the single most important
phenomenon with which the legal profession will need to grapple in
the coming decades. These developments have enormous implications
for every aspect of law—legal practice, jurisprudence, and legal
education. Here, we focus on one important consequence: the
weakening of lawyers’ market power over providing legal services.
We argue that these developments will generally increase competition.
They will commoditize legal services, permitting clients to make
easier price comparisons. They will also bring in new entrants, both
as direct suppliers of services and low-cost providers of inputs to
services of lawyers.”
Yeah, biometrics. Tools for my computer security
students.
This US
military-funded security company can tell who you are just from the
way you touch your phone
… BehavioSec […] provides a layer of
so-called biometric security that lets banks tell who you are just
from the way you type, move your mouse or touch your phone screen.
BehavioSec tracks these movements and maps them
against past interactions to see if they match up. If they don't —
if you're typing much faster than normal or pressing a phone screen
harder — the company will let the bank know it thinks someone else
is trying to get into your bank account.
Ah, clarity!
… Windows 10 will not have an annual fee.
Windows 10 will not charge you a yearly subscription after the
free-for-one-year upgrade offer expires.
… Between July 29th 2015 and July 29th 2016,
you will have the chance to snag a free upgrade to Windows 10. After
July 29th 2016, you will have to pay for a Windows 10 license.
… Microsoft may have confused people by
mentioning Windows 10 "as a service" causing people to
believe there will be a subscription fee of sorts. There is no
subscription model for Windows 10. Instead, Windows 10 "as a
service" simply implies that Microsoft plans to update the
operating system with smaller, more frequent updates, rather than
larger Service Pack-like updates. Think of it like an app that gets
updated regularly.
For the student clubs? (Digest Item #3)
Popcorn
Buzz Enables Group Calling
Japanese messaging
startup Line has launched Popcorn Buzz, a free group calling
service that lets up to 200 people take part in a single
conversation. Only registered users can start a call, but even
non-users can join an existing call by clicking on a shared URL.
Line states, “Popcorn Buzz can be used to talk
with friends and family, catch up with classmates, make plans with
club members, and more. Popcorn Buzz accommodates both personal and
business usage, all for
free.” Businesses could also use Popcorn Buzz.
Popcorn Buzz is initially available
on Android, with an iOS version due at a later date. The app
supports an impressive number of languages, including English,
French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.
Marcus Zillman seems to list almost every resource
on whatever topic he chooses. May help my students research.
New on LLRX
– Journalism Resources on the Internet
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 7, 2015
Via LLRX.com
– Journalism
Resources on the Internet: Marcus
P. Zillman’s new guide is a selective, comprehensive
bibliography of reliable, subject specific and actionable sources of
journalism resources and sites for researchers in all sectors. This
guide will support your goal to discover new sources, refresh your
acquaintance with sources you know but that have evolved, and provide
additional strategic methods to locate and leverage information in
your work.
[Some I
find interesting:
The National Institute for
Computer-Assisted Reporting maintains a library of federal
databases, employs journalism students, and trains
journalists in the practical skills of getting and analyzing
electronic information
The Virtual
Private Library™
creates private libraries powered by Subject Tracer Information Bots™
on various subjects
This one has some potential for amusement.
My Five
Favorite Classtools.net Tools
The Classtools Fake
SMS Generator is free to use and does not require students to
register to use it. In the video below I demonstrate how to create a
fictitious text message exchange between historical characters. As I
mentioned in the video, the Fake
SMS Generator could also be used to create visuals for lessons on
cyber-safety and etiquette.
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