What areas of information-related ethics need to be addressed?

Norbert Wiener - the long-ago father of Cybernetics- had an early recognition under Allende in Chile where Stafford Beer implemented some of his ideas (quickly killed off by Pinochet), now, nearly half a century later, there is a fresh resurgence of interest in his wide range of farsighted concerns and ideas (21stcenturewiener.org) as the confluence of cybernetics, social, technical, and philosophical perspectives collide.  This has been matched by a rise in public concern over ethics- both professional and personal- in many of the areas of society affected.

Weiner's writings anticipate some of these collisions.

What areas of ethical concern do you think should be addressed in the upcoming conference in Melbourne? And would you be prepared stand up and express them, in RL or virtually?

Geoff Revill

Co Founder and CEO at Safe Space One Ltd

8y

When does 'my data' stop being my data when analytics and aggregation techniques are applied, or when 'anonymization' is applied - given anonymization is a de-anonymization risk reduction exercise in which increased individual privacy is traded for by reducing informational value (= $$'s) at what point is anonymization really what it says it is?

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