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.

DMs open if you'd like to connect here.

Show threadLuc Rocher 🍃Nov 12, 2022
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.
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 Moscovitch
@cynddl May I suggest adding self-employed to the employment status?
Nov 12, 2022 at 7:59pmMastodon for Android
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!