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Why a New York professor is taking on Cambridge Analytica in the U.K.
Before most people had even heard of Cambridge Analytica and what it had been doing with all that Facebook data, David Carroll, associate professor of media design at the New School’s Parsons School...
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Big data is powerful. A recent analysis of over 500 million New York City taxi rides found evidence of informal communications between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and major financial...
View ArticleWhat happens when you download your Facebook data
During his congressional testimony last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal whether he thinks Facebook users should be able to get their...
View ArticlePalantir may go public, but can it turn a profit?
The data analytics company Palantir is reportedly considering going public. Palantir is the company co-founded by controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, formerly of PayPal. It’s named...
View ArticleRegulators look at how “big data” may contribute to racial bias in insurance...
A number of consumer studies in recent years have raised the alarm about the use of factors like credit scores, college degrees and ZIP codes in setting rates for home and auto insurance. Advocates...
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