Data Scientists probably need to start doing this. "What is the harm that happens from classifying this object incorrectly?"
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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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I'm at
#litaforum and@waldojaquith just gave a keynote on this very thing yesterday. Crucial for us to answer these qs -
One day,
@waldojaquith, we're going to have to actually meet.
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If you put it in your profile, couldn't you be ordered not to edit your profile?
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you could, but there's precedent for "warrant canaries" among (at least) librarians.
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I'm not saying warrant canaries are bad, but that a warrant canary that requires explicit action to remove it: weak
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a dead[person] switch? A bot that pings you once a week, and if you don't ping back, scrubs your canary?
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Right, that solves the problem. A lot of other people solve it by putting a date in the canary itself.
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