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Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning and Mass Surveillance

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Summary

Maciej Ceglowski wonders what tech companies can do to reduce the amount of data collected, closing the path to mass surveillance and bringing some morality in using ML with this data.

Bio

Maciej Ceglowski is the founder and sole employee of Pinboard, a personal web archive and bookmarking site with an emphasis on user privacy. He’s been an outspoken advocate the decentralized, open web as a counterweight to the excesses of Silicon Valley startup culture. Before founding Pinboard in 2009, Ceglowski worked as an engineer at a variety of tech companies, most notably Yahoo.

About the conference

Entering its 12th year, the Emerging Technologies Conference has brought the leaders of the open source community to Philadelphia to teach about their projects, their work and how these technologies are changing software development. During this time, ETE has become one of the largest gatherings of developers in the mid-Atlantic.

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Jul 23, 2017

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