[LINK] Crowd-sourced data hold potential for positive change and human rights abuses

[Antony Barry]

Crowd-sourced data hold potential for positive change and human rights abuses
By Robin Lloyd | Feb 18, 2011 01:35 PM | 0

Social media has scored big successes in helping crowds to gather and communicate online to challenge oppressive regimes in recent weeks, but digital gathering places that are basically public—and the crowd-sourced data they generate—also carry risks. 

Crowds are forming so rapidly online—the photo-sharing app Instagram reported enrolling one million users in the past six weeks—that many platform managers fail to take full responsibility for protecting the users who post reports online, or for anticipating how the data might be abused by authorities.

<http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=crowd-sourced-data-hold-potential-f-2011-02-18&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20110222>


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