Rosa Colmenarejo warns of the risks posed by the "big data ecosystem" for democracy



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## Rosa Colmenarejo warns of the risks posed by the "big data ecosystem" for democracy

06/02/2018 |
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Rosa Colmenarejo has reflected at the Universitat Jaume I on how the big data ecosystem affects democracies within the series of lectures "Democracy today: challenges for participation".

Colmenarejo explained that behind the supposed objectivity and neutrality of data, there are people who issue them and give feedback, as well as tools and analysis methods that transform data into information. "Technologies are designed to open or close social options. In addition, technology is not independent of the society that generates it, does not evolve alone, but it is socially modeled", she said.

In this regard, she pointed out that the algorithms used to assess risks for banks, the effectiveness of employees and teachers, etc., promote exclusion and inequity, which is why they are deeply political and have a purpose that fundamentally serves the interests of companies or governments. For this reason, she has claimed greater transparency in this regard.

Finally, she has reflected on how massive data contribute to the expansion of authoritarianism. On this issue she commented that, in a first generation, the authoritarian countries censored content about their governments. Then they went on to establish laws and regulations and, with the excuse of protecting national security, hidden features were implemented to conduct mass surveillance. However, the Snowden case served as a starting point for authoritarian countries to argue that democratic countries also did the same. Thus, the current challenge is the authoritarianism that is insinuated in democratic spaces to influence decision-making and alter the mechanisms of democracy from within.

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