Big Data’s Threat to Liberty: Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128238066,0128238062
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128238062
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128238066
- Author: Henrik Skaug Sætra
Big Data permeates all aspects of modern life, and while there is no shortage of potential benefits resulting from this, author Henrik Skaug Sætra argues that we must also understand the threats Big Data poses to liberty. The issues discussed in Big Data’s Threat to Liberty: Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information are related to how we are constantly under surveillance. Data is gathered from our homes, our cars, our smartphones, various devices around the house, and public sources such as facial recognition enabled camera surveillance and various websites and social networks. Furthermore, the information gathered is used to influence our actions. Detailed personality profiles are utilized in order to make us purchase products and services, or pay our taxes, through tailor-made nudges aimed at irrational and subconscious mechanisms, and delivered with a level of precision only possible with Big Data-driven algorithmic curation of data. Finally, the information we receive through various media is curated by algorithms, and even people are curated in order to satisfy our desires. By providing us with what the algorithm believes we want, we are spared from the exposure of unpleasant information, and even unpleasant people. The ideological landscapes we traverse are thus characterized by conformity, and a concomitant tyranny of popular opinion becomes ever more coercive as this occurs.
Table contents:
1 Introduction
2 Technologies and society
3 Liberty under surveillance
4 Big Data nudging and liberty
5 The algorithmic tyranny of perceived opinion
6 The three threats in concert
7 Liberty in the era of Big Data
8 Conclusion
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