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Mike Seay of Illinois was shocked to receive an envelope with 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' under his name. Data experts say companies track such information.
MailChimp Chief Data Scientist is at Disney World this weekend wearing his RFID-equipped MagicBand. Here's how he thinks the practice of digitally tracking consumers in the physical world will reach everywhere from theme parks to our homes.
You've probably heard politicians or pundits say that “metadata doesn't matter.” They argue that police and intelligence agencies shouldn't need probable cause warrants to collect information about
Data's ready availability -- especially online -- is what's driving the wildly optimistic monetization plans for social-media platforms.
They do disclose consumer types like "credit reliant" and "resilient renter."
Data broker claims its shady lists weren't actually ever sold.
Look up “big data” (with the quotes) today on Google, and you’ll results that look like this: Basically, a heap of hype. The only visible organic search results are a Wikipedia ar…
Big Data has not one privacy problem, but two. We are accustomed to talking about surveillance of data subjects. But Big Data also enables disconcertingly close
The genetic-testing company's real goal is to hoard your personal data
Details from a database of patients' conditions, treatment and medical histories could even be sold to private companies
We're at the mercy of entire industries that have never had to do online security before.
I had the privilege of speaking to the San Jose State University community at two talks hosted by the California Faculty Association, Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics yesterday. For s…
the ACLU s version of ordering a pizza in the future.
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The following guest post is by Linda Raftree. Linda works with Plan International USA, serves as a special advisor on ICTs and M&E for the Rockefeller Foundation’s Evaluation Office and is a me…
Credit bureaux sell personal data indiscriminately, including to an identity-theft outfit.
Big data is all the rage. Its proponents tout the use of sophisticated analytics to mine large data sets for insight as the solution to many of our society’s pr
As more and more business decisions are being made by looking at the data collected from our lives, what happens to the people who are generating no data at all?