When school officials post photos about students on Facebook, they may be inadvertently enabling data mining firms and others to use the information for other purposes, new research has found.
While some online services such as banking do warrant using your true information, many sites shouldn’t require the same level of disclosure. Here’s how to protect yourself in such cases.
There’s a creeping conformity taking place on the web.
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Design bloggers have long had creeping suspicion of a more monolithic web, so a team of researchers decided to analyze the aesthetics of nearly 10,000 websites.
Workplaces may stick with manual data entry, even in the age of digital technology advances.
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Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.
Google’s size isn’t the only reason way it exerts market power.
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The General Data Protection Regulations have been in force since May 2018. Analysis of its four key measures: labels, liability obligation, portability and pseudonymisation.
If you feel like you’re being watched, it could be your smartphone spying on you.
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Information extracted from copyrighted material should not be seen as an infringement. Such analytical use is good for society.
Facebook already controls how its users’ data can be gathered and shared. It’s university ethics boards that need to join the digital age.
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal wasn’t a data breach – it was a violation of academic ethics. Maybe it’s universities, not social networks, that need to update their privacy settings.
It’s not good if women’s research isn’t in the library stacks.
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Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women’s career advancement.
Who’s collecting your data, and what are they using your data for?
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When smartphone apps get permission to access your location or other activity, they often share that data with other companies that can compile digital profiles on users.