Luc Rocher 🍃Nov 12, 2022

The new #twittermigration calls for a small #introduction thread!

I'm a lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute. I research the increasing use of large-scale personal data sets and #AI technologies and its impact of digital rights, from #privacy to consumer rights online. I have spent years modeling our #anonymity online, how easy it is to re-identify us from digital traces, and building tools for everyone to better understand these risks.

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Show threadLuc Rocher 🍃
I'm interested in #academic research that benefits those impacted by technologies and platforms, informing about risks and harms, suggesting positive changes notably in academic practices. While I'm not fond of techno solutionism, I believe there's a path to re-appropriate ourselves some tools and carefully co-design non-extractive technologies that benefits us and our environment.
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Show threadLuc Rocher 🍃Nov 12, 2022
One of the tools I built with colleagues last year is the Observatory of #Anonymity, an interactive website where you can learn how much data is needed to identify you. https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/observatory/
The Observatory of Anonymity

Explore the research of the Computational Privacy Group on anonymity online. Take a short quiz to find out what makes you more vulnerable to re-identification, explore anonymity in 89 countries around the world, or train our method with your own datasets.

Show threadPhilip MoscovitchNov 12, 2022
@cynddl May I suggest adding self-employed to the employment status?
Show threadLuc Rocher 🍃Nov 12, 2022
@PhilMoscovitch Thank you! We use primarily data from IPUMS International (https://international.ipums.org/international/), which I believe doesn't have these statistics. I'll have a look though!
IPUMS International

IPUMS-International is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data absolutely free!

Show threadWednesday DessauerNov 23, 2022
@cynddl no data for Australia?