What kind of data-mining is the IRS doing within the U.S.? The Right to Financial Privacy Act protects our personal banking data from government searches.
Loading ... Loading ...Sort of interesting to think about this in the context of other things employers ask about that may or may not have anything to do with job performance.
One of these just showed up nearby. Here’s more info on what these things are.
Not the most subtle device in the world. But really that’s just the point?
Loading ...The author of this article compares this new technology to retina scanning technology in the movie “Minority Report” that allowed “billboards” to play ads that are tailored to YOU, personally, not you, as a member of a demographic group. Is that a fair comparison?
After all, the data behind the Japanese advertising technology probably looks more like this Wikipedia page on Japanese demographics than this IMDB page on Tom Cruise.
Still, it’s very easy to see the slippery slope between these two scenarios, in particular because they are collecting the faces they’re reading.
So the question remains, where’s the bright line between tracking people to gain a “general understanding” of what’s going and tracking individuals so they can’t get away with anything? Has this face-reading advertising technology already crossed that line?
What do you think?
Loading ...We talk a lot on this blog about how tracking personal activities and collecting data can be extremely useful. We also talk about the need for better laws, regulations and shared social understanding of how such data should be collected, shared and used.
As part of our ongoing work to make sense of such a complicated and confusing set of issues, we’ll be collecting interesting “moral dilemmas” related to the issue of tracking human behaviors and posting them as a series of online polls. It’s an attempt to take a more “empirical,” case-by-case approach in an effort to keep high-level policy thinking rooted in reality.
If you come across something an interesting moral dilemma, please send them our way.
Without further ado, here’s the first poll:
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