This is a terrific Youtube playlist that goes in depth in regards to how to navigate the information you come across on the web. This is something we'll often refer to in class. Click this link to view the full playlist.
The Cambridge Analytica Scandal — a sophisticated data harvesting operation that helped influence the results of Brexit and the 2016 American Presidential election — revealed that perhaps we're in less control of our thoughts than we believe.
I encourage you to read Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach and to do some research, and lateral reading, on the subject.
Youtube Description: Professor David Carroll tells the tale of how he sued UK-based Cambridge Analytica in an effort to obtain his personal data. Carroll’s quest to repatriate his data was the subject of the 2019 Netflix original documentary film, "The Great Hack"; the film tells the story of how data rights and democracy are interlinked, and has reached millions around the world.
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I also very much encourage you to watch the film The Great Hack.
Youtube Description: Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon. Its CEO is Alexander Nix
Youtube Description: Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data from as many as 50 million people. That's put Mark Zuckerberg on the defensive. The Verge's Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton reports
Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet —DATA DIGNITY—
From the New York Times (via Youtube Description): Computer scientist and futurist Jaron Lanier has a plan to fix the internet. This Silicon Valley maverick has a radical vision for how we can all earn money from our data.
Every time you click on a website -- yes, even that ad right there -- a company is keeping a little bit of your information, and someone somewhere is making money off of it.
Lanier argues that every bit of data out there belongs to the person who created it, and if anyone should be getting paid for it, it's you. He has a plan to make this happen.