Hey! Here's an idea! Let's use FitBits in education! What could ever go wrong!https://t.co/wReKVD2E9t
To all the "I have nothing to hide" crowd: You never know when the right combination of details will change that, dramatically.
— Bill Fitzgerald (@funnymonkey) January 28, 2018
Also, the debacle of Fitbit data exposing the location of military bases highlights one of the many issues with data flowing to third parties.
Across large datasets, patterns emerge that aren't obvious from a single record, or smaller datasets.
— Bill Fitzgerald (@funnymonkey) January 28, 2018
This problem is made worse when data from multiple sources are combined: more patterns, more predictive possibilities, more potential misuse, and/or unintended consequences.
Folks who have "nothing to hide" learn the opposite, pretty fast.
— Bill Fitzgerald (@funnymonkey) January 28, 2018
Arvind Narayanan also wrote a series of tweets:
Now that the dust has settled a bit on the Strava heatmap privacy story, what lessons can we learn? I was interviewed about this on CBC radio. Here are the highlights. https://t.co/ljekLDd8X4
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) February 3, 2018