Digital Vulnerability:Characterizing Risks and Contemplating

Responses

@ChrisDiehl

July 28, 2016

Global Impact&

Local Perspective

AgendaCurrent RisksPotential ResponsesExisting GapsFuture Options

Digital Vulnerability

Unwitting Disclosure

Discrimination

Witting Disclosure

Privilege

Marginalization Opportunity

Disclosure Risk

Prediction Risk

Actuation Risk

Where to Start?The Design Conversation

Defining the Middle Ground

No Raw Data Collection

andRetention

UnconstrainedRaw Data

Collection andRetention

No Personalization “Measure and PredictAll the Things”

Private, Fair, Interpretable

Inference

“Equitable Inference”

Existing GapsWidely Understood OptionsTrusted ImplementationsDesign Patterns and Principles

Community Knowledge Creation and Dissemination1. Define Algorithmic Options2. Develop Best Practices and

Open-Source Implementations3. Teach the Approaches4. Gather Feedback from

Practitioners

Let’s Do This!bit.ly/

equitable_inference_experiment

chris@thedataguild.com