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  1. Jul 2023
  2. Nov 2022
    1. Do they also have a moral responsibility to inform that SNS

      Muddles - A right can be framed as a responsibility. As we figure out new ways to engage with these new technologies, we will be given new responsibilities.

  3. Sep 2022
    1. He said he squandered several of his early lectures trying to convince the app he was present, toggling his settings in desperation as professors needled him to put the phone away. He then had to defend himself to campus staff members, who believed the data more than him.

      Tech fails...it happens. But when tech is regarded as infallible, and we rely so heavily on its records, then a failed tech record has consequences, and people are left without recourse.

    2. It also generates a “risk score” for students based around factors such as how much time they spent in community centers or at the gym.

      Who is qualified to design such general parameters to assess an individual's "risk" score?

    3. “At every school, there are lots of Sashas,” he said. “And the bigger you are, the more Sashas that you have.”

      And, what is to be done about Sasha? Surely, Sasha feels even worse knowing that University systems are tracking her malaise.

    4. A student avoiding the cafeteria might suffer from food insecurity or an eating disorder; a student skipping class might be grievously depressed. The data isn’t conclusive, Benz said, but it can “shine a light on where people can investigate, so students don’t slip through the cracks.”

      Is it really the place of a university to make profiles on people's personal struggles and premptively intervene?

    5. — have also led some to worry whether anyone will truly know when all this surveillance has gone too far.

      To what end?

    1. ProctorU chief executive officer Scott McFarland said that “students should be reassured that all testing data is owned by their schools, not the proctoring provider.”“Schools set the rules about what data is collected, how it’s retained and for how long,” he said in an emailed statement.

      Highly skeptical; where there is access to data, there is an opportunity to profit. Where opportunity to profit exists, claims of data security and ownership of data is highly suspect.

    2. There’s a big gulf between what this technology promises, and what it actually does on the groun

      Expectation/promise vs. reality of performance

    1. “When it comes to deploying listening devices where sensitive conversations occur, we simply have no idea what long-term effect having conversations recorded and kept by Amazon might have on their futures—even, quite possibly, on their health and well-being,
    2. Amazon to advance voice--enabled technology on campuses, part of the tech giant’s Alexa Innovation Fellowship

      Giving one of the riches companies in the world even more access to peoples data, while convenient for consumers, may have long term consequences.

  4. Jul 2022
    1. Enthusiasts opened cybercafes with Internet-connectedcomputers, an Atlas of Cyberspace was published, and the US government agreed not toforce the collection of sales tax on online purchases made across state lines.2

      I've always wondered why this was so... I'm not sure that it was the best decision in the long run.

    1. Everyone who used it loved it. Butwhen Monier sought approval to release his engine to the public,DEC execs scratched their heads. What good was a search enginewhen it came to selling hardware

      How did DEC execs not have more foresight?

    2. Xerox

      I don't udnerstand the reference to Xerox here.