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Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts.
Remember the good old days when managing privacy meant wrapping your mind around just defining “personal information”; distinguishing de-identification from pse
Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong
We need to know how our data is being used.
Private companies want to scoop up your child's data.
A new study finds that a vast majority of Americans trust neither the government nor tech companies with their personal data.
Control over data profiles is about power, not privacy
The recent book The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration is not to be leafed through lightly. The volume reproduces 19th-century imag ...
A graphic novella about Big Data, privacy and the future of sharing
Love in the time of lab rats....
Big data and the “internet of things”—in which everyday objects can send and receive data—promise revolutionary change to management and society. But their success rests on an assumption: that all the data being generated by internet companies and devices scattered across the planet belongs to the organizations collecting it. What if it doesn’t? Alex “Sandy” […]
The same technologists who protest against the NSA’s metadata collection programs are the ones profiting the most from the widespread surveillance of students.
The participating companies are publicly committing themselves not to sell information on kindergartners through 12th graders.
We're taking a closer look at the way we do research.