One of AI's most commercially successful applications—and one of the drivers of innovation—has been to use data and inferences about you to provide a personalised user experience: product recommendations, micro-targeted adverts, tailored newsfeeds, tailored prices. This automated personalisation has one goal: to affect your behaviour, in the pursuit of either profit or power. In this subproject, we explore how personalisation is changing our social world now, what the goals of personalisation should be, and how to realise those goals in real socio-technical systems.
Read MoreClaire Benn and Seth Lazar ask what is wrong with online behavioural advertising and recommender systems, in this paper published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Read MoreThis entry is an analysis of the fairness principle as provided for in Article 5(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. The analysis tracks this principle's uncertain contours and also points to its constitutional foundations with reference to Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Read MoreChildren and young people throughout the world have felt the effects of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the decisions made in response to the public health crisis acutely. Questions have been raised about adequately protecting children’s privacy, as schooling, play and socialising went almost exclusively online. However, due to the historical lack of children’s rights being embedded throughout decision-making processes (including important participation rights), the effects of the increased surveillance as a result of the pandemic have not been thoroughly considered. This article pursues three objectives. First, it seeks to develop the literature on the enabling aspects of privacy for children in relation to education and play. Second, it seeks to expand the discussion on the exploitative risks endemic in not protecting children’s privacy, including not only violent harms, but commercial exploitation. Third, it suggests some policy responses that will more effectively embed a children’s rights framework beyond the ‘parental control’ provisions that dominate child-specific data protection frameworks.
Read MoreChildren's Rights and eSports.
Read MoreWe propose a new model, Radflow, for networks of time series that influence each other.
Read MoreIt is well-known that online behavior is long-tailed, with most cascaded actions being short and a few being very long. A prominent drawback in generative models for online events is the inability to describe unpopular items well. This work addresses these shortcomings by proposing dual mixture self-exciting processes to jointly learn from groups of cascades.
Read MoreWe present SupMMD, a novel technique for generic and update summarization of document collections based on the maximum mean discrepancy from kernel two-sample testing. SupMMD combines both supervised learning for salience and unsupervised learning for coverage and diversity.
Read MoreIn this QuantumBlack Australia virtual Meetup, the ethics of artificial intelligence was discussed with the Gradient Institute and HMI. Click through for more information.
Read MoreCan policymakers detoxify social media? Listen to HMI CI Jenny Davis, Dr Jennifer Hunt, and Yun Jiang discuss online hate, anti-social behaviour on digital platforms, and what policymakers can do about it.
Read MoreIn this project, we aim to link attention metrics and communication strategies to real world actions. In particular, we start by contrasting popularity and engagement of online social movements. We then link the measurements to real-world metrics of these activities, as measured by participant turnout, election outcome, legislative success, and others. Answers to these questions will empower content producers, consumers, and hosting platforms to channel attention in mutually beneficial, and socially responsible ways.
Read MoreThis report analyses the literature exploring the meaning of the fairness principle in EU data protection law. Fairness is included in both Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter) and Article 5(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Despite these foundations however, the fairness principle has been largely unexplored and remains broadly undefined in the data protection framework, case law and guidance literature.
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