You're right, but so far information overload has been mitigating these issues. All that information may be out there but we can only look at it very selectively, which limits our ability to draw conclusions from it.
For instance, imagine an embarrassing picture that shows you doing something stupid in an obviously intoxicated state. OK, so you were very drunk one night in 2005. So what? Millions of others were too. But what if everything publicly known about you could be mined for clues as to whether or not you have an alcohol problem?
I think that is what we should think about every time some company tells us "we don't ever look at your data, only our algorithms do" while the same company is busy working on AI stuff that draws conclusions from data.
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You're right, but so far information overload has been mitigating these issues. All that information may be out there but we can only look at it very selectively, which limits our ability to draw conclusions from it.
For instance, imagine an embarrassing picture that shows you doing something stupid in an obviously intoxicated state. OK, so you were very drunk one night in 2005. So what? Millions of others were too. But what if everything publicly known about you could be mined for clues as to whether or not you have an alcohol problem?
I think that is what we should think about every time some company tells us "we don't ever look at your data, only our algorithms do" while the same company is busy working on AI stuff that draws conclusions from data.