In this information booming modern world, people have already used to the convenience delivered by all kinds of information technologies. Through our mobile apps, we can learn news and events around the world, explore outdoor activities around us, or we can learn about the traffic in the city by Google Map. In this modern world, information has become an essential component of our lives. We hope to get more information, so we can study and understand things. At the same time, information transparency becomes crucial because it's the source of information sharing.
So what is information transparency? According to Turilli Floridi's definition: "It's the disclosed information constitutes a complete picture of the state of the organization at a given point in time". However, on the other hand, there's a problem with information transparency. According to Turilli: "The problem is that the elaboration processes that have produced such information usually remain opaque." In other words, information providers decide how their information becomes transparent, and often time they are not telling the whole truth. For example, Facebook tells everyone they have complete access and control of their personal information. It sounds like a good user account policy, but they never tell you that your information is analyzed by them, so they can provide you ads.
In this information booming world, we are hungry of information, and we want to use the information to study, to learn, and to understand the world better. But we must be careful of those "half" transparent information because they are chosen and often biased for the benefit of their provider.
I like how you used a picture to guide the reader from your introductions paragraph to your body paragraph. However, I think your blog would benefit if you introduced a deeper analysis on the reading rather than simply defining information transparency. I also believe your blog could benefit from a stronger hook that draws the reader in.
ReplyDeleteInteresting read, I know a lot of companies have a cookie/privacy popup that takes up half of the screen until you consent to then collecting your data and that is their way of letting you know that they're collecting it as well as their way of getting your consent. It's also fairly difficult to find out just what they're collecting without digging pretty deep into the site.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could elaborate on how the information is analyzed by them, for example some collect it anonymously and just aggregate the findings, while some collect deeper info such as location, age and name. Or maybe go deeper into how much and what type of data they collect and how that relates to Floridi's arguments.
I agree with Jack's point, I think it would really benefit your post if you took one Floridi's arguments to go along with the definition.