Algorithms, future and digital rights: Some reflections

Issue title: Information Science meets Philosophy: Information, Knowledge, Autonomous Action, and Big Data

Guest editors: Daniel Martínez-Ávila

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Souza, Renato Rocha^{a; b}

Affiliations: [a] Federal University of Minas Gerais, Gerais, Brazil | [b] Fundação Getulio Vargas, Praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Tel.: +55 21 37995529; E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Renato Rocha, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Praia de Botafogo, 190/5o andar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22250-900, Brazil. Tel.: +55 21 37995529; E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: The paper intends to briefly present a view on current trends on our society, highlighting the technical aspects introduced by the big data phenomenon and the machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. It covers the threats that privacy and human rights can suffer by the general ignorance about this issues,nd calls for a discussion on educational agendas and a new digital literacy.

Keywords: Big data, algorithms, privacy, social media, contemporaneity, digital literacy

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-180200

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 179-183, 2018