http://thepoliticsofsystems.net/2007/10/10/data-interpretation/ Thoughts on Power and Software Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:48:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thepoliticsofsystems.net/2007/10/10/data-interpretation/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Ryan Shaw Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:26:32 +0000 http://thepoliticsofsystems.net/2007/10/10/data-interpretation/#comment-4 I made this distinction in a <a href="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/events/unblinking/unblinking/shaw.pdf" title="Recognition Markets and Visual Privacy" rel="nofollow">paper on visual privacy</a> I wrote last year, arguing that image recognition, not image capture, was what privacy advocates should be focusing on. I also pointed out that the algorithms to which recognition is delegated could themselves be designed to to delegate the work of analysis to human laborers, and in doing so achieve much better performance, but without really empowering the "humans in the loop" to make ethical judgments. I made this distinction in a paper on visual privacy I wrote last year, arguing that image recognition, not image capture, was what privacy advocates should be focusing on. I also pointed out that the algorithms to which recognition is delegated could themselves be designed to to delegate the work of analysis to human laborers, and in doing so achieve much better performance, but without really empowering the “humans in the loop” to make ethical judgments.

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