Difference between revisions of "Talk:Jack McCafferty"

Revision as of 17:53, 19 February 2020

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

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.