The guest lecture that I am going to reflect on Is the guest
that my group and I introduced, Stephanie Rosenthal. Stephanie Rosenthal is
currently an assistant Professor of Applied Data Analytics here at Chatham
University. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2007 with a Bachelors in
Science and Computer Science, and later received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon
in Philosophy and Computer Science in 2012. She was a Human-Robot Interaction
Scientist for Bossa Nova Robotics, and then was a Research Scientist at
Carnegie Mellon before she started teaching at Chatham during the Fall 2017 semester.
She had also worked at startups, government agencies, and universities before
joining Chatham. Dr. Rosenthal teaches programming, data science, and research
methods classes in the business department.
Dr. Rosenthal’s presentation was about data collecting on
the internet (in specific). She discussed how cookies work and the various ways
that companies/websites collect data and information about the people that
visit their site. She mentioned that they can collet information about you from
what you click on, if you sign up to get discounts, obviously because they are
asking you for personal information, like email, phone number, name, etc. They
can also collect information about you if and when you buy something from their
website if that is available because you’re giving them your card number and
address as well.
This aspect is a good thing, yet it can be very dangerous as
well. The positive part of this is that companies can figure out what products
are popular and which ones aren’t selling to help them determine what they
should sell more and less of. The negative of this is that there can be fake
companies asking for your information that can hack everything of yours that’s related
to the internet, which is a lot. The other negative is that some companies,
like YouTube for example, illegally collects kids’ data. An article from MIT’s Technology’s
Review says that “ YouTube knowingly gathers data about children under 13 years
of age, tracks them across the web, and delivers ads to them without the
parental consent that is required by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610800/youtube-may-be-illegally-collecting-kids-data/
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