Description: Slides : - http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/attachments/1997_lee-privacy-science.pdf
A practical discussion of how potentially revolutionary, yet ethically questionable data---such as that from facebook---is currently being handled in academia.
With every day that passes, the users of social media websites are providing scientists with ever-richer, larger datasets on human behavior. At the same time, machine-learning techniques allow us to exploit this data to accurately predict who these users are and how they will behave in the future. I begin this talk by outlining the need for public datasets containing rich information on individuals and their social relations. I then show how in practice, distribution and use of such datasets by academics is awkward and confused. I conclude with some consideration of how "enhancing" datasets by, for example, inferring missing or hidden data using machine learning classifiers, creates yet another ethical grey-zone.
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