The Data Day posters show some of the things people agree to when they don’t read the terms and conditions and just click “I agree”. Very few people take the time to study the terms and conditions and just click away the annoying notices. The original “A Data-Day in London” Read more…
Information Commissioner’s Office (2018): Your data matters, London. Your data matters is an information service provided by the UK Information Commissioners Office and supports individuals in knowing and exercising their rights in relation to their data and its reuse. The ICO is an independent UK authority for safeguarding information rights Read more…
The website “How normal am I?” is an interactive online experience that aims to raise awareness about facial recognition and artificial intelligence systems. It accesses the user’s camera and applies a facial recognition algorithm that judges the user’s face, accompanied by an explanatory commentary by the author. By seeing how Read more…
Interactive Media Foundation (2021): Your Data Mirror, Berlin. The website “Your Data Mirror” aims to sensitize young adults to the topic of data collection and draws attention to the connection between personal data and possible effects on democracy and society. An interactive and personalized web application based on users’ Instagram Read more…
Made To Measure. Ein Projekt initiiert und entwickelt von LAOKOON und der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, 2021. (1:03:06 Min.) Is it possible to reconstruct a doppelganger from a person’s Google searches over the last 5 years alone, without actually knowing the real person? An actress, as a customized doppelganger, reenacts the Read more…
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2018): fluter. Thema: Daten. Nr. 68. Magazin Issue on “Data” (in German) with various articles on data economy, data protection, social scoring, artifical intelligence, predictive policing and more. “Wenn es nichts kostet, bist du das Produkt. Diese Weisheit basiert auf der Erfahrung mit Konzernen wie Facebook Read more…
Knetsch, Gabriele (2019): Big Data – oder die Vermessung des Individuums. Radiofeature (53:06 Min.), gesendet am 15. Mai auf Bayern 2. In her radio feature “Big Data – oder die Vermessung des Individuums” for Bayerischer Rundfunk on January 18, 2019, author Gabriele Knetsch explores the question of whether the dystopia Read more…
Dewes, Andreas (2016): Plenty to Hide: The toxicity of personal information in the “Big Data” age. Vortrag, gehalten auf der re:publica 2016 am 3. Mai . When asked about their online privacy, most people think they got nothing to hide. In his talk, Andreas Dewes want to show that this Read more…
Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband (2021): Habe ich Follower, von denen ich nichts weiß? Der Einfluss von Big Data auf unseren Alltag (“Stadt | Land | DatenFluss”), Bonn. As part of the event series “Stadt | Land | DatenFluss” of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband, experts discussed both the dangers and the opportunities that lie Read more…
Digitale Lernwerkstatt (2017): Leitfaden für Lehrer*innen zum Thema Big Data, Kronberg im Taunus. The text gives an introduction in big data and addresses the following questions, among others: What is big data and where is this coming from? What kind of datasets are considered big data and how ist it Read more…