by thebooglebooski on 7/23/19, 4:18 AM with 1 comments
by dredmorbius on 7/23/19, 5:44 AM
Though I disagree vehemently with Kosinski's conclusion. Privacy isn't killed by technology, but rather, privacy is an emergent response to invasions of personal expectations and norms on information sharing caused by information technology advances. Warren and Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" was a direct response to the invasions made possible by the first generation of analogue recording and replication, transmission, and reproduction technology: photophraphy, telegraphy, and rotary web presses.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/courses/cs5436/warren-bran...
Privacy is the ability todefine, communicate, and enforce limitations on the spread of personal information -- and the inferences based on it. Kosinski's talk was interesting, but he completely lost me at the point of portraying China's social credit scoring system as a good thing and empowering to the individual. It is anything but either.
In reality, it explicitly discriminates against already oppressed ethnic minorities and bars millions from air and rail travel:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/24/chinas-social-cr...