Summary
Frank Pasquale: The Black Box Society
The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
A detailed analysis of the political economy of big data. How do big companies abuse our privacy to make money? Koji su tajni mehanizmi pomoću kojih tajni algoritmi kontroliraju internetska pretraživanja, financije, kreditne rezultate, reputaciju, poslovne pothvate, jednom riječju, naše živote. Google, Facebook, the financial industry, as well as the state itself, thanks to increasingly advanced automation, make countless decisions in a fraction of a second. But what is the cost of their methods? And what exactly do they do with our digital profiles? Demanding transparency is only the first step towards creating an understandable society that will ensure that key decisions affecting our lives are made in a non-discriminatory manner, open to criticism. The author calls companies to be responsible and makes concrete proposals for the application of stricter regulations and more effective law enforcement in order to create a fairer digital society.
Frank Pasquale
Lawyer and professor who deals with the legal and legislative aspects of health systems, finance, privacy and intellectual property. A special focus of his research is the challenges posed by information law due to the development of faster and more complex technology (artificial intelligence, algorithms and machine learning), as well as its ethical, legal and social implications.
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