Addiction and Technology: Understanding the Links

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Introduction

Paul-Olivier Dehaye (Q351) - on Wikidata
PersonalData.IO (Q182): "data rights individually actionable and collectively useful"
Q585: "personal data empowerment"
MyData Geneva (Q50)

History of Youtube systems

source: "Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems: A Case Study on Youtube," by Minmin Chen (Q1236)

Scale

Version 1

Version 2

Problem

Latest

Success!

Comment

The DNNs of version 2 (tend to) model stable user characteristics.
The CNNs of version 3 (tend to) model dynamic user characteristics.

Generic comment

Generically:

optimization function is often "engagement"
reward mechanism
user history

This translates to other areas, sometimes surprisingly. For instance Uber (Q101). (see Uber data model)

Individual rights

Definition

personal data (Q28): "data about an identified or identifiable individual"

Data rights

right of access to personal data (Q51): view/get a copy of all our personal data
right to data portability (Q1209)
- scope: "data provided by the data subject"
- "in a commonly-used, machine readable format", at least from the data controller to the data subject
- "without hindrance, [..] where technically feasible", from one data controller to another directly
right to information about the logic of the processing (Q1211)

Right to benefit from science

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Q1233) and UN Declaration on Human Rights Article 27 (Q1234): "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits."

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