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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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message 1: by Charles (last edited Jul 01, 2019 08:20PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Jul 01, 2019 08:19PM

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It strikes me in particular how listening to this in 2019, many of Cathy's warnings about the future feel like they are already in the rear-view mirror. Not that the issues are no longer with us, but that they have developed considerably since the writing of the book.

The data giants of Facebook and Google are now being tackled with heavy regulation in Europe through the GDPR and there are threats (empty?) from the Democratic candidates in the 2020 primaries which might hint at further legislation in the U.S.A., another huge market for these big data companies.

It would be very interesting to enumerate how the warnings have met up with concrete policy changes over the past several years.

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message 2: by Charles (new) - rated it 4 stars

Jul 02, 2019 03:07AM

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It seems that Cory Doctorow has been very consistently using the #WeaponsOfMathDestruction tag in his articles for the past several years. You can find a host of interesting articles that show some stories that do a good job of following with the key ideas in the book.
https://boingboing.net/?s=weapons+of+...

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