Information Labeled As Black and White
August 9, 2013
Before the dawn of the Information Age, there was perhaps more of a general awareness of ethics regarding information and usage. The article from Digimind, “Different Shades of Big Data,” calls to our attention that this is a topic that everyone needs reminders about.
The Digimind article actually draws a distinction between two types of data, calling public and shared data white and referring to information not legally available to the public as black information.
Of course, there are some types of information that fall into grey categories as well:
“Apart from the obvious black and white information, there are various shades of grey, often referred to as the invisible web. This kind of information is available on the internet, but not easily accessible from a basic search engine, such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc. Some examples are:
-Newpapers and journals with a subscription, usually protected by a login and password
-Information indexed in search engines embedded on other sites
-Blogs and forums not listed by major search engines”
What would the author choose as the label for information found on the Deep Web? Also, it is very interesting that the author chose to label information with the descriptors black and white when the objectivity of search results is anything but clear due to sponsored results.
Megan Feil, August 09, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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