Archiv für den Monat: Januar 2016

#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 9)

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Collect It All: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Everyone

Talk by M.C. McGrath (Transparency Toolkit)

From the program:

Governments post reports and data about their operations. Journalists publish documents from whistleblowers. But there is a third type of open data that is often overlooked – the information people and companies post about themselves. People need jobs. Companies need to hire people. Secret prisons do not build themselves.
By making it feasible for anyone to collect public data online in bulk and exploring ways to effectively use this data for concrete objectives, we can build an independent, distributed system of accountability.

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#32c3 – best of chaos communication congress (part 8)

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Predicting Crime in a Big Data World

Talk by Whitney Merrill

Extract from the program:

„Yearly, the world is inundated with news about government data collection programs. In addition to these programs, governments collect data from third party sources to gather information about individuals. This data in conjunction with machine learning aids governments in determining where crime will be committed and who has committed a crime. Could this data serve as a method by which governments predict whether or not the individual will commit a crime? This talk will examine the use of big data in the context of predictive policing. Specifically, how does the data collected inform suspicion about a particular individual? In the context of U.S. law, can big data alone establish reasonable suspicion or should it just factor into the totality of the circumstances? How do we mitigate the biases that might exist in large data sets?“

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