Item talk:Q1215

Addiction and Technology: Understanding the Links

Introduction

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

How is "engagement" generated?

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

Scale

Version 1

Version 2

Problem

Latest

Comment

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

Individual rights

Definition

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

• in Federal Act on Data Protection (Q1210),
• and General Data Protection Regulation (Q449))

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."

See also:

• “We the Scientists”: a Human Right to Citizen Science (Q1238);
• The dynamics of big data and human rights: the case of scientific research (Q1240).

Right of access: some examples

• Snap Inc (Q1232)
• Facebook (Q241)
• Uber (Q101)

Right to portability: some questions

• where to?
• how to do the transfer?
• how to build trust?
• how to experiment?