People find data difficult to own – and things we don't own, we tend not to protect.
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A survey shows that most Puerto Ricans didn't highly rate the official information coming out of the island. With the Institute of Statistics in trouble, the situation is likely not to improve.
Today it's estimated that we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day as our 15th century ancestors would have in their lifetime.
Official reports state that just 64 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The latest estimates put the real number at 4,645. How did the count go so wrong?
The number of births in the US is down 2 percent. That pops the country's 'fertility bubble' – and brings numbers closer in line with peer countries.
Digitized state records help to tell the stories of African-American prisoners in the 19th and 20th century.
You should be aware of the amount of genetic information you might disclose in a research study – and what the benefits and risks will be.
Organisations are on the losing side, especially those that rely on leveraging personal data to compete. But there will be a net benefit to consumers – and that's a good thing.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
According to one study, more than 8 million people per year die early from air pollution exposure.
The routine gathering and monetisation of vast amounts of personal data has been normalised.
Australian businesses will not be forced to comply with or fall foul of the new data regulation merely because they maintain websites accessible in the EU.
We’re at a critical moment as users of Facebook. It's our responsibility to educate ourselves about how our data is bought and sold.
When you send off a cheek swab to one of the private genome companies, you may sacrifice not just your own privacy but that of your family and your ancestors.
Facebook grapples with balancing the privacy needs of users with needs of the research community.
Canadians — and consumers around the world — have the power to hold industries accountable for misuse or unauthorized use of our data. It's time to use it.
Statistics are political – so we should question the recent drop in government estimates of British citizens living in the EU.
The 2020 census will count same-sex couples across the US. A broader count of the LGBT population would be even better.
As cities get smarter, we need to examine carefully who gets our data and what it is used for.
Mark Zuckerberg's decision to heavily restrict Facebook's APIs turns an opaque social network into an unaccountable black box.
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Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory, New York University
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Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Teacher of cyberspace law, and leader of the Data Protection and Surveillance stream of the Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation, UNSW Faculty of Law, UNSW
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Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate professor, Management Discipline Group UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
