September 12, 2014
"But that is part of the ideological mission of Big Data, to get us to accept black-box algorithmic filtering as reflecting what would have chosen to see, had we been given the choice. In other words, the common understanding of “personalization” has been stretched to leave out the will of the actual person involved."

Rob Horning at Internal Exile. Prompted by the callous statement from OKCupid’s data scientist

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