The Blackbox Within by Katina Michael
Keynote recorded on October 5, 2020 for the International Conference on Intelligent and Smart Computing in Data Analytics held at KL University.
The notion of a blackbox is not new. Blackboxes appear in all types of shapes and sizes. But all of them have one thing in common, they collect data, and lots of it. Most of them have an audit function, but increasingly blackboxes are present for real-time tracking and monitoring and are network-enabled, interfacing with smart devices, and even satellites. Blackboxes are also getting smaller in size given breakthroughs in the miniaturization of high-tech devices, and the ability to pack multiple sensors onto small motherboards. The smartphone for example, is the most pervasive black box that exists, not only because of what it can do, but because of its hidden capabilities that are not apparent to the end-user. Today, people seldom switch off their mobile devices, they are not only ubiquitous but persistent, offering service providers are 24×7 intimate user profile. And blackboxes are no longer just embodied in airplanes, trains, trucks and cars today but increasingly in Internet of Things devices in a smart city on a lamp post or in the house in a thermostat, in conversational search robots or on people in the form of smart watches.
Implantable blackboxes are particularly prevalent in the prosthesis market, where people bear biomedical devices. In the US, for example, about 10% of the population now carries some form of implantable. These devices will transform in function with time from manual to digital, as the infrastructure develops for bidirectional feedback loops in a variety of operational scenarios. Purportedly the blackbox is there to capture the “last mile”, providing a variety of time stamps to help determine identity, location and condition of the bearer. The implantable thus becomes that non-transferable token that identifies the individual with certainty bringing a level of assurance of the data being gathered. This presentation will ponder on data analytics of the future that are humancentric and the social implications of what we have described in the literature as uberveillance.
More here: https://www.katinamichael.com/seminars/2020/10/3/the-blackbox-within-the-social-implications-of-last-mile-data-analytics
Citation: Katina Michael, 5 October 2020, “The Blackbox Within: The Social Implications of Last Mile Data Analytics”, International Conference on Intelligent and Smart Computing in Data Analytics, https://icscda.com/keynote-speakers.html
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