26: Data Workers of the World, Unite! | Reinier Tromp, The Data Union

What, do you think, is the secret of Google, Amazon, Netflix, and other Big Tech companies to become the most powerful and rich firms in today’s arena? Arguably, this is thanks to the invisible gold of the 21st century in their possession we call data. Today’s internet still remains a mostly unregulated space where profound manipulation and surveillance takes place. If we work for free on creating that data that is the essence of all the state-of-the-art algorithms today, then why don’t we have a say in how we want this technology to be used? And if it is worth so many $$$, shouldn’t we get paid for it? The following is the conversation with the creator of the first data union in the world, Reinier Tromp. Just like labor unions used collective power to pressure capitalist firms and governments to create better conditions for the workers, a data union aims at creating better conditions for data producers, aka internet users just like you and me. Get in touch with us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataforfuture/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dataforfuture Email: [email protected] Sources mentioned: The Data Union Website: https://thedataunion.eu/ Blueprint For Better Digital Society (Data Dignity by Jaron Lanier) : https://hbr.org/2018/09/a-blueprint-for-a-better-digital-society Fake News spread faster than normal news: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43344256 Study about Facebook, negative emotions are easier to trigger than positive ones: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds Visualization of Neural Net Layers: https://cs231n.github.io/understanding-cnn/