You can infer medical conditions from spending habits. Political affiliations with ZIP codes.
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These are moral touchstones that you need to be a data scientist now.
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You might think, "nah, regulations prevent that sort of access." Watch those regulations evaporate overnight.
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It's not about the math and coding anymore. Truthfully, it never was. But ask yourself if you want to be in charge of assembling the list.
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Sometimes we might have no choice. The courts can compel us to act. Warrants, subpoenas.
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There's only so much we can do to resist and to build trust, but there's one action I'm going to take.
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Today I'm putting a canary in my profile (previous tweet I accidentally typed 'warrant').
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That I have never been asked to deliver to a government a list of people to target based on behaviors.
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As a trans woman, the incoming government has gone through extreme lengths to classify me as a sexual predator.
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I'm sure if try hard enough you can build an algorithm to come to that conclusion for you. I'm not, but algorithms don't care.
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I hope the owners of the data on me care enough to refuse that order. If you're a data scientist, I hope you refuse that order, too.
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Fascism ideologically relies on technology to give it strength. As a data scientist, YOU are the technology. Act your conscience. Fin.
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these are the right questions to ask. I can only hope geeks on the inside are thinking this way.
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