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danah boyd: "forcing people into the public eye doesn’t dismantle the structures of privilege, the structures of power. What pisses me off is that it reinforces them."
"There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don’t have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they’d like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope. I know there are lots of folks out there who think that we should force everyone into the public so that we can create a culture where that IS the norm. Not only do I think that this is unreasonable, but I don’t think that this is truly what we want. The same Silicon Valley tycoons who want to push everyone into the public don’t want their kids to know that their teachers are sexual beings, even when their sexuality is as vanilla as it gets."
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The researchers behind the de-anonymisation paper deplore the cancellation of the 2d phase of the Netflix prize:
"One of us has publicly referred to the dampening of research as the “worst possible outcome” of privacy studies."
They suggest an approach where algorithms are tested on the owner's infrastructure:
"setting up an online system for data analysis rather than an “anonymize and release” approach"Interesting comments from Dan Kamisky:
"any system patterned enough to predicted, is patterned enough to be correlated with external data sources"