Like, datasci twitter, we gotta get real for a sec. The internet privacy debacle today is a direct consequence of our peers thirsty for data
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
We can blame the ad industry or the ISPs, but this happened to satisfy a demand that was being driven by us going "if only we had..."
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
We gotta own this. How do you, as a data scientist, pledge to not do harm to people. That's a thing you gotta know.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
What lines are you unwilling to cross? What tickets are you unwilling to clear? Do you have a path for escalation?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I talked about this post-election, where the threat of the government forcing inferential reporting from private data is a possibility.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
But this also applies to our everyday jobs. Is it worth it to use, store, access this data?
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Maybe the answer is yes. Maybe you're doing epidemiology and you have strong institutional controls and can do good.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Or maybe you're just targeting T-shirt sales and all of a sudden you have everyone's deepest secrets. Don't pull a Target.
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But in the end, our community is responsible for what happened today. No equivocation. We did this. This is on the best of us to control.
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(your rare politics + datasci/tech 2-fer-1 special)
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