diff -r 2d9e005100f4 -r f65e4fa6e902 handouts/ho02.tex --- a/handouts/ho02.tex Fri May 06 13:15:08 2016 +0100 +++ b/handouts/ho02.tex Wed Jun 01 13:04:21 2016 +0100 @@ -16,6 +16,28 @@ %version of Windows XP from 2004, using hardwired WEP keys and administrator %passwords, could be used for over a decade in most of Virginia. +%% second angle of the problem +%Jonathan Zittrain is interested in algorithmic accountability, +%from Facebook’s ability to tell that two people are in a +%relationship before they announce it, to their ability to +%engineer an election by prompting one side’s supporters. +%They’d be in the soup if they were caught, but they have been +%near the soup a number of times. One internal meeting had the +%question “What responsibility does FB have to prevent +%President Trump?” That has repudiated once leaked, but the age +%of innocence is behind us. Back in 2005 Google apologised when +%the hate site “jew watch news” appeared in search results for +%“jew”; but the site has morphed from tool to friend. +%Facebook’s M and Apple’s Siri are the same. This leads +%Jonathan to the idea of “information fiduciaries” whereby the +%big firms would have to put user welfare first like doctors or +%lawyers. Should Google tell you to vaccinate your child? +%Already in Europe they suppress hate speech and promote +%counter-narratives. To whom does Uber owe a fiduciary duty – +%the driver or the passenger? And should data scientists join +%divines, medics, lawyers and surveyors as a learned +%profession? + \section*{Handout 2 (E-Voting)}