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Category: Gordon Hull
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That's right, the party of flag and God and country found something more important to do today than remembering 9/11: making sure that poor North Carolinians don't get health insurance. The current state budget does not include Medicaid expansion because the GOP so hates Obama that insuring 600,000+ people and creating 30,000+ jobs in the…
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It appears that HUD, as part of the general initiative to stop enforcing the housing laws it’s supposed to enforce, is poised to allow landlords to hide behind computer algorithms as they discriminate against minority tenants. As Andrew Selbst – who co-authored one of the foundational pieces on exactly this sort of problem – describes…
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By Gordon Hull A couple of weeks ago, I noted my newly discovered appreciation for Philip Agre’s “Surveillance and Capture” and outlined why I think his development of capture (and retreat from surveillance) is particularly applicable to the privacy concerns surrounding big data. Here, I’d like to suggest that Agre’s distinction is also helpful in…
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North Carolina took a small step today towards undoing its disgraceful HB2 legislation passed by the state’s Republican legislature back in 2016 as an effort to stop Charlotte’s attempt to allow trans people to use the bathroom matching their gender identity. Per a consent decree today, the state has agreed that no provision in HB2’s…
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By Gordon Hull A current paper by Mireille Hildebrandt sent me to a paper from 1994 that I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t read before: Philip Agre’s “Surveillance and Capture.” Agre’s paper has been cited over 300 times, but it’s missing in a lot of the privacy literature I know. After reading it, I’ve decided…
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The Trump administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is a farce attempting to be a tragedy. The initial claim – that the question was needed to enforce the Voting rights Act – was so obviously pretextual that Justice Roberts had to join the Court’s liberals to strike it down (even…
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One of the standard talking points about data gets summed up in the “data imperative:” that the drive to accumulate data seems insatiable, and that firms will pursue accumulating it well beyond and definable economic end. There’s a lot of literature on why this might be; I’ve tended to approach the question with the resources…
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I'm very pleased to be able to say that my new book, The Biopolitics of Intellectual Property, now has a publisher's webpage on Cambridge UP! It's currently in production, and should be coming out this winter. Here's the blurb from the site: "As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP)…
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By Gordon Hull In the New York Times last week, Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger underscore the importance of obscurity to privacy. They begin with an easy example: most of us do not remember the faces or names of those who stood in line with us the last time we purchased medicine at the drug…
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By Gordon Hull Surely one of the more striking features of the rise of data science is how readily it can be incorporated into processes of capitalist valuation, to the point that data may not just be a commodity – it may also be capital. At one level, this sounds intuitive enough: one might suggest…
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