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Feb
16
2009

  • In the space of about three months, I went from an A to an E cup. The way I was treated by both people I knew and by strangers completely changed. My peers began to see me as ‘slutty’, despite the fact that I had never even kissed a boy.
  • Groping my breasts became almost a sport among the boys at school. It would happen in class, during break times, while I passed them in the corridor – any time that I was within groping distance. Typically, a boy would grab my breasts while his friends whooped and hollered. Occasionally the friends would be holding me down. I would scream and hit them, but this seemed only to increase their enjoyment. Nobody ever came to my rescue: not the girls, not the other boys whose opinions these male chauvinist piglets probably would have respected the most, and not the teachers whose job it was to intervene. It simply was not regarded as important. It was seen as an inevitability of my figure, and if I had the temerity to walk down the corridors looking like I did, what did I expect?
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Jan
12
2010

A related problem involves “secondary use.” Secondary use is the use of data obtained for one purpose for a different unrelated purpose without the person’s consent. The Administration has said little about how long the data will be stored, how it will be

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  • Moreover, data mining aims to be predictive of behavior, striving to prognosticate about our future actions. People who match certain profiles are deemed likely to engage in a similar pattern of behavior. It is quite difficult to refute actions that one has not yet done. Having nothing to hide will not always dispel predictions of future activity.
  • This kind of information processing, which forbids people’s knowledge or involvement, resembles in some ways a kind of due process problem. It is a structural problem involving the way people are treated by government institutions. Moreover, it creates a power imbalance between individuals and the government. To what extent should the Executive Branch and an agency such as the NSA, which is relatively insulated from the political process and public accountability, have a significant power over citizens?
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Feb
11
2011

This is the fundamental problem with Google search: there is no trust. Once upon a time we could trust that the best products would be at the top of Google’s search results for any given term. This is no longer true. In fact we should be especially skepti

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