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Your daily movements are simple, predictable and useful to know. Thuany Gabriela

Your phone knows the three places you visit each day

By Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne

We lead busy, complex lives. But how many different places will you visit today? And how many different ways could you organise your travel between those places? The answer, according to a new study published…
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Were you one of the 50 million people affected by the LivingSocial data breach? El Ojo Inoportuno - fotografía Lo-Fi

Once more into the data breach: the LivingSocial hack and you

By Bruce Baer Arnold, University of Canberra

Oh look, everyone … another data breach! LivingSocial, an international social service network with a presence in Australia, acknowledged last week it had been hacked, with exposure of information about…
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Shhh – there’s so much buzz around your digital footprint. Yael P

Who’s afraid of the bad, big data? You might want to read this

By Rob Livingstone, University of Technology, Sydney

Privacy and technology go together like music and dance: it’s only when both work well together that the magic happens. But what about privacy in the age of big data, an era in which your every move has…
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Balancing the priorities of industry and the public is one of the greatest challenges of open health. Truthout.org

The tension at the heart of open health oversight

By Adam Henschke and Nick Evans

Open health is the intersection between health care and information communications technologies. We’ve previously talked about what it is and why people should care about it, the problems that may occur…
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Researchers are now dealing with bigger datasets than ever before, such as surface elevation across a whole continent. NICTA/Geoscience Australia

Big Data poses big questions, so how do we answer them?

By Fabio Ramos

In recent years we’ve seen an explosion in the number of sensors and embedded computer devices being used by consumers and in a range of industries. New cars have several computers and sensing capabilities…
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Many solutions to the challenge of digital preservation have been developed or are in the pipeline. an untrained eye

Hooray, we’re digital natives – so who preserves our culture?

By Sue McKemmish, Monash University and Andrew Wilson, The Conversation

It’s estimated that in 2011 a truly staggering 1.8 zettabytes of digital information was created. Or to put it in more meaningful terms, that’s 57.5 billion 32-gigabyte iPads full. Recent articles about…
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Open health is one side of “open data” policies being pursued by countries all over the world. Kate Ter Haar

Open health: what is it and why should you care?

By Nick Evans and Adam Henschke

“Open health” captures a broad set of information technologies that will change the way we approach health and health care. It encompasses “ehealth” (the storage and provision of personal medical information…

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