My book "Book Enclaves" might interested anyone reading about yesterday's #FTC#personaldata#privacy#socialmedialink.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives, examines how we freely exchange our personal data.
Anyone got any good recommendations on the history of "technological" scams? I'm interested in examples of where a particular innovation/tech trend has veered off into scammy actions & behaviours, in particular
Colleagues & I have two new papers out on #data#edtechlink.springer.com/article/10.1...#assetization#STS#highereducation#education#digital
Digital data are a building block of postdigital higher education and, as such, are believed to be economically and socially valuable. However, data need to be made valuable via a complex set of polit...
Colleagues & I have two new papers out on #data#edtech#Rentiershipwww.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...#assetization#STS#highereducation#education#digital
So LinkedIn just fucking auto-added everyone to training their AI. Can't get the direct link to the setting to work right now, so, to turn it off in your LinkedIn account go to: - Settings - Data Privacy - How LinkedIn uses your data - Data for generative AI Improvement Set it to Off.
Assistant Professor in Innovation Policy This is a crucial role for us at LSE. Please share widely jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
I don't understand the fascination with #artificialintelligence when the simple energetics of it can't seem to work
Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
"Google’s approach to data value focuses on monetizing users." ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/105...#Google
New paper out! "Understanding Data Valuation: Valuing Google’s Data Assets" w/ Sarah Marquis & Guilherme Cavalcante Silva in IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society #Google #data #Assets #assetization ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/105...
Digital personal data are increasingly understood as a key asset in our digital economies. But how should we value such data? Numerous policymakers, regulators, and stakeholders are trying to work out...