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• 15 min
• The App Solutions

Overview of recommender systems, which are information filtering algorithms design to suggest content or products to a particular user.

• Data Privacy
• Technology Based Entertainment and Leisure
• Recommender Systems
• Data Mining

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• 5 min
• Tech Crunch
• 2020

During Google’s attempt to merge with the company Fitbit, the NGO Amnesty International has provided warnings to the competition regulators in the EU that such a move would be detrimental to privacy. Based on Google’s historical malpractice with user data, since its status as a tech monopoly allows it to mine data from several different avenues of a user’s life, adding wearable health-based tech to this equation puts the privacy and rights of users at risk. Calls for scrunity of “surveillance capitalism” employed by tech giants.

• Data Privacy
• Tech Monopolies
• Data Mining
• Mobile Computing

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• 5 min
• Kinolab
• 2014

In this vignette, Matt describes his backstory as a member of an online community who used technology called “Z-eyes” to walk each other through activities such as flirting with women at bars. The Z-eyes technology directly streams all audiovisual data which his friend Harry experiences to his screen, and Matt is additionally able to use facial recognition and information searches to offer background information which enhances Harry’s plays.

• Data Privacy
• Edited Humans
• Computer Vision
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Data Streaming

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• 10 min
• Kinolab
• 2016

In this episode, Kenny’s life is upended after hackers use malware to access a compromising video of Kenny on his laptop. Under the threat of this humiliating video being sent to everyone in his contacts, Kenny becomes a puppet of the hackers, forced to have his location services on and be tracked and contacted through his smartphone wherever he goes. Along with other puppets of the hackers, including a man named Hector who had an affair, he is forced to commit heinous acts such as a bank robbery and a fight to the death. Despite their compliance, the hackers release the puppets’ information anyway, leading to vast consequences in their personal lives.

• Cyber Crime
• Data Privacy
• Mobile Computing
• Malware

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• 8 min
• Kinolab
• 2019

Chris is a ride-share driver who has taken passenger Jaden hostage, with the conditions of release being that he is connected with Billy Bauer, the CEO of social media company Smithereen, for a conversation. While the London police attempt to deal with the situation through negotiation, the management team at Smithereen uses several data mining techniques, including analysis of Chris’s various social media pages and audio data streaming from his device, to provide the police with a valuable and complete profile on Chris.

• Data Privacy
• Predictive Policing
• Tech Monopolies
• Data Mining
• Social Networks

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• 6 min
• Kinolab
• 2019

In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. Kate Hatfield, a new mother, discovers that someone has hacked into the device in her head, and thus was able to access some of her lived memories. Later, the culprit of this hack is revealed to be her father-in-law Lawrence, who was attempting to implant the Feed into Bea, the new baby.

• Data Privacy
• Edited Humans
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Networks