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Big Data/ Privacy/ Security

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How do societies differ in how they define and enforce privacy protections in the digital age?                            

Can we use machine learning to develop better ways to synthesize drugs?

What are the ethical considerations involved in the sharing of genomic and health data?

What can social media data tell us about people's values and priorities?

How does the loss of privacy affect psychological adjustment?

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How did society change when large cities emerged and people became anonymous? When and how did modern forms of identification and tracking appear? When and why did concepts of privacy first appear?

How can we leverage geospatial Big Data in a meaningful way to promote scholarship?

How are Facebook algorithms encouraging particular worldviews?

Is a different "self" emerging in conditions of total surveillance? Can a person be truly independent if they know they are always being watched?

How has contemporary prestige television commented on cultural anxieties related to surveillance and the collection of information?

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How do our social networks influence our health behaviors?

What are the ethical issues to address around the emergence of open-sourced forms of geo-tagged data, such as consumer and social media data?

How is information privacy linked to self-autonomy? If much of our information is being shared without our consent, is our freedom undermined?

How are traditional notions of privacy changing in the era of big data?