Social media should be comprised of people from end to end. Corporate interests inserted into the process can only serve to dehumanize the system.

Robin Sloan is in the same camp as Greg McVerry and I.

Government officials are urging citizens to adopt the official digital currency in a bid to gain more control over the economy.

Cardozo Law Review. „COVID-19 and Digital Contact Tracing: Regulating the Future of Public Health Surveillance“, 27. Januar 2021. https://cardozolawreview.com/covid-19-and-digital-contact-tracing-regulating-the-future-of-public-health-surveillance/.

particularly proctoring and "plagiarism detection" platforms that exacerbate the "patterns of systemic racism" mentioned above.

Sometimes I forget how funny The Register can be. This is terrific.

I fail to see anything bad about this.

Bauch, C. T., & Anand, M. (2020). COVID-19: When should quarantine be enforced? The Lancet Infectious Diseases, S147330992030428X. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30428-X

White, J. (2020, May 8). Attitudes of Australians to the Government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app. Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. https://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/chdh/news/attitudes-of-australians-to-the-governments-covidsafe-contact-tracing-app

Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic. (2020 March 26). The Economist. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/26/countries-are-using-apps-and-data-networks-to-keep-tabs-on-the-pandemic?fsrc=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-05-07&utm_content=article-link-1

Nanni, M., Andrienko, G., Boldrini, C., Bonchi, F., Cattuto, C., Chiaromonte, F., Comandé, G., Conti, M., Coté, M., Dignum, F., Dignum, V., Domingo-Ferrer, J., Giannotti, F., Guidotti, R., Helbing, D., Kertesz, J., Lehmann, S., Lepri, B., Lukowicz, P., … Vespignani, A. (2020). Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment. ArXiv:2004.05222 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05222

Notice Drop Box states up front that it does not sell your info to advertisers and third parties. This line is crucial to your data privacy.

So while this is a free site, they can mine your data including your social media account. All of this in the name of providing you better service.

I can't help but think here about the application of digital technology to large bodies of literature in the creation of the field of corpus linguistics.

If traditional sociology means anything, then a digital incarnation of it should create physical and trackable means that can potentially be more easily studied as a result. Just the same way that Mark Dredze has been able to look at Twitter data to analyze public health data like influenza, we should be able to more easily quantify sociological phenomenon in aggregate by looking at larger and richer data sets of online interactions.

There's also likely some value in studying the quantities of digital exhaust that companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. are using for surveillance capitalism.