Big Data, Big Issues
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIndustry experts discuss the social and ethical ramifications of big data technology, surveillance, AI, and privacy law.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Congressional Antitrust Investigation on Tech Monopolies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
August 02, 2020 00:10 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBWe also play important clips from the hearing in their full context, compressing the key moments of the 6 hour hearing into about 45 minutes.
Coronavirus, Surveillance, and Big Data (COVID-19)
March 15, 2020 22:35 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThere is a corresponding YouTube video with slides, if you would like more detail.
FISA and Big Data Technologies
January 28, 2020 03:01 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBBig data technologies have the power to facilitate widespread surveillance across entire populations. Detailed personal information is collected, stored, and analyzed by corporations in an effort to create profitable products and expand corporate power. The government can also use these tools for intelligence gathering efforts - either to catch criminals or to gain insight into the activity of rivals internationally. FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) was introduced after...
Surveillance Capitalism Part 3: Instrumentarian Ideology
December 08, 2019 21:22 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBHow has the concentration of power changed in the last 20 years? Zuboff argues that surveillance capitalism has given rise to a new form of power called 'instrumentarianism.' This power and its related ideology is driven by the idea that, because humans are irrational and make many bad decisions, powerful organizations are ethically obligated to apply behavioral control techniques which encourage collective well-being. By predicting bad behavior and stopping it, or by encouraging go...
Beyond Election Interference - The Ambitions of the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA)
November 16, 2019 15:45 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBWelcome to the fifth episode of Big Data, Big Issues. Today we will be talking about the Russian Internet Research Agency(IRA). The Internet Research Agency (IRA; Russian: Агентство интернет-исследований, also known as Glavset and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino) is a Russian company engaged in online influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. It is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and based in Saint Petersbu...
Surveillance Capitalism Part 2: The Unprecedented Rise of Corporate Power
November 10, 2019 01:57 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBBy collecting and analyzing personal data, corporations are able to make predictions about how a person is likely to behave in the future. They use this data to create seemingly harmless targeted ads - but what else can they do with it? Zuboff argues that this capability actually reflects the birth of a new form of power called "instrumentarianism." Corporations are unbounded in their desire for profits, so too are they unbounded in their conquest for behavioral data. This is impor...
Surveillance Capitalism Part 1: Introducing Shoshana Zuboff's Groundbreaking Book
November 10, 2019 01:07 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" is a 2019 masterpiece. It has had a tremendous influence on my beliefs regarding big data technologies. You can find it on Audible, from your local library, or book store. In this book, Zuboff details the rise of a new form of power which will forever change our lives. By collecting behavioral data from their users, corporations have amassed an incomprehensibly large and detailed pictu...
Washington Privacy Act (WPA): Shortcoming and Solutions for 2020
November 04, 2019 16:47 - 51 minutes - 47 MBWelcome to the third episode of Big Data, Big Issues. Today we will continue talking about the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) [hypothetical] 2020. We will be discussing the shortcomings and solutions. This is a follow-up episode of Episode 2, where I discussed the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). You can find episode two of Big Data, Big Issues at this link: ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-xxZ2dcPU The Washington Privacy Act (WPA) is a large privacy bill in Washington state tha...
Washington Privacy Act Part 1: Overview
November 03, 2019 01:21 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBWelcome to the second episode of Big Data, Big Issues. Today we will be talking about the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) [hypothetical] 2020. We will be discussing on what the Washington Privacy Act really is and what it means to the residents of Washington State and the companies that are doing business here. The Washington Privacy Act (WPA) is a large privacy bill in Washington state that had been expected to pass this session has failed to do so. The Washington Privacy Ac...
Surveillance, Big Data, and Existential Risk
November 02, 2019 23:19 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWelcome to the first episode of Big Data, Big Issues. Today we will be talking about Existential Risks Surveillance and Big Data, taking a look at a series of sensitive topics, and I will provide my thoughts on each and every one of them. Here is the content I am talking about in this video: ► 1:38 - An overview of the topics ► 3:00 - The Vulnerable World Hypothesis Nick Bostrom has put up a new working paper to his personal site (for the first time in two years?), calle...