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Big Brother and state control—a new career for statisticians?
Author(s) -
Goddard Ivor
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00340.x
Subject(s) - brother , parliament , state (computer science) , control (management) , big data , law , political science , computer science , sociology , politics , artificial intelligence , data mining , algorithm
Big Brother is watching you—and he will be recruiting statisticians to help him. Dictators mine digital information to control their citizens. Even in Britain the laws to allow the biggest—and potentially most oppressive—super‐database of all are before Parliament now. Ivor Goddard sounds a warning—and looks over his shoulder with trepidation.