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Big Data's Threat to Liberty - Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information (Paperback)
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Big Data's Threat to Liberty - Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information (Paperback)
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Big Data permeates all aspects of modern life, and while there is
no shortage of potential benefits resulting from this, author
Henrik Skaug Saetra 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. The question is: How does being constantly watched,
manipulated, and having our world-views shaped as just described
affect our freedom? In this book it is argued that Big Data's
threat to individual liberty is routinely misunderstood and
underappreciated due to (a) vagueness resulting from the concept of
liberty being used without it being defined, or (b) the use of
definitions based on flawed understandings of what liberty is. In
this new and unique contribution to the ethics of Big Data and
artificial intelligence, both these challenges are thoroughly
addressed.
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