“NISO The Ethics of Data: Anonymity Vs AnalyticsWe are living in unprecedented times. We walk around with powerful computers in our pockets that can track our every move. We regularly offer up our location and vital information on what we buy, watch, and read to digital global powerhouses such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. This data is, of course, used to provide us with product and service suggestions designed to improve our lives. The technology now known as “big data” is a battleground for surveillance. Many feel we are living in a Big Brother world, where our every physical and online movement, purchase, and personal message is stored to create a picture of us that may or may not be accurate. The age of big data is now firmly upon us, and we therefore face collective societal challenges on how our data is handled and used to target and track us. Data ethics is an emergent theme and one that poses complex questions for those of us who work in the identity and knowledge sector…”
Global Investigative Journalism Network: “Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to interview dozens of investigative journalists about their favorite tools and techniques. In a series of stories, their tips have shown our global audience of reporters that there are scores of muckraking tactics that can help their reporting, and that effective digital tools constantly emerge that can help them dig. But again and again, these top muckrakers point to roughly two dozen techniques that assist in almost all of their investigations, and consistently impress with their effectiveness. Most of these require no cost or computer science skills, and some involve the simplest adjustments to allow investigators to access tough sources or find elusive evidence. In part two of this piece next week, I’ll list the dozen tools that have emerged as common favorites for many reporters. But here, in part one, I list the dozen tactics and approaches that leading investigative journalists commonly rave about…”
Study: More ‘green time,’ less screen time boosts kids’ mental health.
T-Mobile investigates claims of giant customer data breach
Study: Social media ‘likes’ of ‘moral outrage’ spread more extreme views.
Why I’m Investing In Creative Youth
You Believe In Privacy? Turns Out We Believe In Convenience More
Tasked With Writing A Family Spy History
New:
- Sense Data, by Gary Hatfield.
Revised:
- Justice, by David Miller.
- Bernard Bosanquet, by William Sweet.
- Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, by Lev Vaidman.
- Richard Rorty, by Bjørn Ramberg and Susan Dieleman.
- Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic, by Edward N. Zalta.
- Descartes’ Theory of Ideas, by Kurt Smith.
- Meaning and Communication, by Marat Shardimgaliev.
Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- Hannah Arendt (Critical Lives) by Samantha Rose Hill is reviewed by Shaan Sachdev at Los Angeles Review of Books.
- Citadels of Pride by Martha Nussbaum is reviewed by Aidan Johnson at The Globe and Mail.
- Digital Souls: A Philosophy of OnlineDeath by Patrick Stokes is reviewed by Maks Sipowicz at Sydney Review of Books.
Compiled by Michael Glawson
BONUS: Determinism vs. Fatalism
How the Human Immune System Works
A Mural-Making Spree Lifts Spirits in BuffaloBloomberg
Instagram says sorry for removing Pedro Almodovar film poster BBC. One of my film buff friends points out, with some annoyance at the industry, that Almodovar is the only director to show frontal male nudity.