Big Data Big Responsibility

Here we are! The time has come for us to say GoodBye for now, and we hope we “Speak” to you Later! Seems like we just enrolled on this exciting and one of a kind journey to creating our group blog - Big Data Big Responsibility - but time flies...

Did you know that Big Tech companies, such as META, are creating psychographic profiling algorithms on you? You did not? Well, neither did many of the users. This question was quietly aiming to be addressed during my previous post where I discussed the power of datafication and the challenges and...

Whilst some hail the new digital economic era as an opportunity for people in the Global South to ride the wave of innovation to prosperity, others argue that what we see is a new era of digital colonialism. There are countless committed digitalisation fans who are happy to adopt any...

Introduction In a previous post, I introduced how grassroots can utilise social media for poverty alleviation. Poverty alleviation is part of the well-known United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations, n.d.c.). Apart from these conventional problems, humanity faces increased and severe challenges in cyberspace. It is now much...

In this past few weeks, we have introduced end user license agreements (EULAs) and discussed their role in ensuring fairness in emerging technologies in the Global North. Through these explorations, we have revealed that these agreements can provide certain rights, privacies and protections to users and consumers, but that these...

Hello and thank you for joining! Today we feature a discussion revealing the catastrophic real-world consequences that biases in technology can have. Our panel reviews a report published by independent consultancy and auditor: Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), in which they look at Meta and their handling and misguiding censoring...