Do adults understand how their data will be used?
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:40 am
Did all users anticipate that machine learning would enable insights from their data?
Did all users anticipate this could lead to targeted advertisements and political manipulation?
Are all users confident that we won’t find more powerful ways to misuse this data?
Do all users feel their historic tweets austria rcs data do not contain dated views?
Many users anticipate their followers seeing their content. Some users would be embarrassed if somebody outside of their preferred network saw their content. Not all users are fully aware of the extent their data can be used by third parties.
In any academic study, we have to abide by GDPR and obtain consent to use personal data. However, as I’ve explored in my previous posts, if we were to try and reach out to Twitter users to inform them that their data is being used, many would become uncomfortable. The context the tweet is taken in (or out of!), the purpose of scraping the data, and the organisation using it affect the scale of this discomfort. So there’s a tension here.
Did all users anticipate this could lead to targeted advertisements and political manipulation?
Are all users confident that we won’t find more powerful ways to misuse this data?
Do all users feel their historic tweets austria rcs data do not contain dated views?
Many users anticipate their followers seeing their content. Some users would be embarrassed if somebody outside of their preferred network saw their content. Not all users are fully aware of the extent their data can be used by third parties.
In any academic study, we have to abide by GDPR and obtain consent to use personal data. However, as I’ve explored in my previous posts, if we were to try and reach out to Twitter users to inform them that their data is being used, many would become uncomfortable. The context the tweet is taken in (or out of!), the purpose of scraping the data, and the organisation using it affect the scale of this discomfort. So there’s a tension here.