Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. This article examines the public response to mandatory location disclosure (MLD), a new surveillance technology implemented on China’s Sina Weibo. Initially introduced to geo-tag posts related…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Part of an accelerated trend to integrate algorithms in immigration decision-making, the UK’s EU Settlement Scheme relies on automated data checks as an essential and mandatory step in the app…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. This article presents an ethnographic case study of a corporate-academic group constructing a benchmark dataset of daily activities for a variety of machine learning and computer vision tasks….
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. The proliferation of environmentally oriented programs within the tech industry, and the industry’s coinciding efforts toward data and technology democratization, generate concerns about the s…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. This study examines the impact of role-based constraints on privacy cynicism within higher education, a workplace increasingly subjected to surveillance. Using a thematic analysis of 15 in-dep…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2024. Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimina…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2024. In this article, we engage critically with the idea of promoting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in recruitment as tools to eliminate discrimination in decision-making. We show th…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2024. Data sharing practices between governments and the private sector are characterized by a lack of transparency which has potential implications for human rights. Minimal scholarship exists i…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2024. People experiencing homelessness seek support from homeless services systems that increasingly rely on prioritization algorithms to determine who is the most deserving of scarce resources. …
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 1, January-March 2024. This study investigated the factors that influence individuals’ privacy helplessness in the context of social media and mobile application use. An integrative research model was proposed, s…