Talk:Jack McCafferty

Sulayman Ali

Hi Jack!

I too enjoyed reading your analysis. Your concerns about online privacy and find-ability are shared by me and a lot of our other classmates. It was intriguing to find out that you use variations of your name when making online accounts. I know you probably don't want to to expose these variations to others, but it would be interesting to hear about any ways that using a different spelling of your name online has impacted your life.

I think you did a great job referencing your data identity exercise to the readings in class. To make that pairing stronger, you could cite a specific quote from the "The Ethics of Information Transparency" that you found particular relevant to this exercise.

Your conclusion wrapped up your post in a good way as well. However, the images you included aren't embedded properly. I definitely think the pictures will add to the post, so you should fix the embedding issue ASAP.

To improve the post overall, I would try to go more in depth about the reasons why you choose to stay private on social media. There are benefits to public usage of social media, like making more connections through public online communication. It would be interesting to read your POV on why those advantages are not worth it to you.

Best, Sulayman

Yuki Fang

Hi Jack,

I liked how honest you were throughout your analysis and the insights you had about why there was certain information found about you and certain information that couldn't be found - I definitely related when you mentioned using a slightly different name for each of your social media accounts.

I also really liked the point about data brokers not using logic to validate information they have scraped. However, there are definitely cases where kids as young as 10 years old go to college and finish it, so I feel that's a reason why algorithms don't compare your school information to birth year, but it's still a great example of how data brokers only see us as data and not humans.

For suggestions, I would recommend double-checking that you uploaded your pictures correctly or copied the names correctly to your page because the 2 pictures are blank right now. Your reference to class is also very vague to someone who had never read anything from Luciano Floridi and Matteo Turili before - maybe you can give a bit of background or explain how your take on transparency relates to it.

Very enjoyable read though!

Best, Yuki

Kevin Lee

Hey Jack - I thought your post was very holistic in that it touched upon various aspects of the assignment pretty equally. Its personally interesting to hear that the online broker returned valid information since I wasn't able to get the same outcome and thus had a different experience with it. I especially liked where you were heading to in the conclusion when you said

"Unfortunately, the world is becoming increasingly more centered on technology and dependent on the internet. Eventually, my efforts to remain anonymous on the grid will be nearly impossible and I believe that this era is coming sooner than we may think."

I also think about this - no one bats an eye when you go grocery shopping or to the movie theaters without having anonymity but people expect that from Amazon or Netflix. Perhaps we'll eventually get to the point where everything is in the digital realm that a certain degree of anonymity could be compromised.

On somethings you could improve upon - I think you could talk a bit more about what your findings tell you about your identity. What is it that makes you you and does the digital or the physical representation do it justice? Why or why not? Also I liked how you quote the transparency reading, but I think you over simplified it a bit. If I'm not mistaken, the reading states that transparency in itself isn't an ethical issue, rather its about how does that transparency or lack of it affect the other moral goods such as accountability etc.

Cheers! -Kevin