Get dark money out of UK politics
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Professor of Sociology at the University of York. His books include The Data Gaze and Metric Power. Information about his writing can be found on his website davidbeer.net and he is on Twitter @davidgbeer
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion‘Trapped in a code’ – the fight over our algorithmic futureWe grudgingly tolerate algorithms that predict our cultural consumption – but applying them to exam results has...
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Published in: ourEconomyWe need to change who can analyse our data – as well as who owns itBuilding a digital commons will require new rules to govern data analytics, as well as new models of ownership.
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Published in: ourEconomyFacebook’s new currency is an attempt to create a platform we never leave'GlobalCoin' will allow Facebook to harvest data about transactions that would previously have occurred outside its...