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Computing has evolved rapidly over the past few decades, it has changed the very way we live and work. Now the world of computers and the internet have crossed in to a new threshold - Big Data, Surveillance & Analytics. Our data is constantly being collected, our every move is being watched and this is all fed in to countless algorithms to make sense of it all. Is this good or bad?
Your Tweets Could Be Used to Monitor Syndromes. Does that Make You Feel Safe or Worried?
Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia
(Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of East Anglia)
The UK has sophisticated Syndromic Surveillance systems. In this talk we investigate the use of Twitter data in such an environment. We will explore ethical issues, technical challenges and what may be gained by utilizing social media data. We will give an insight into the complexity of analyzing Twitter data, touching on Artificial Intelligence and in particular text mining approaches. This is an exciting new area of research which is seeing wide applications in many environments from medicine to education to consumer choices or even politics.
The Cambridge Analytica Files: A Data Story
Dr. Nikolaos Korfiatis
(Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of East Anglia )
Storytelling of the technical foundations behind the Cambridge Analytica's alleged use of Facebook mined' personality profiles for behavioral retargeting during the US election. Nikos will show how the construction of personality profiles was made possible by Facebook's click stream data, and then show some evidence as to the validity of the story from the perspective of the scientific literature by adopting an accessible and non-scientist friendly approach
Internet privacy – do we have a right to it?
Dr Paul Bernal
(Lecturer in IT, IP and Media Law at the University of East Anglia )
Internet privacy is a controversial and sensitive subject as of late – do we as human beings have any right to protecting it or do the companies and corporations hold the real power? Dr Paul Bernal discusses and debates what power we have over our personal data online in relation to us, the general public
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