The real costs of cheap surveillance
What governments and companies think they know about us – whether or not it's accurate – has real power over our actual lives.
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7 in 10 smartphone apps share your data with third-party services
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.
Harvesting big data could bring about the next transport revolution, right now
To ease the stress of commuting, don't ditch the bus – just make it smarter.
Why isn’t science better? Look at career incentives
Embracing more rigorous scientific methods would mean getting science right more often than we currently do. But the way we value and reward scientists makes this a challenge.
Bartering for science: using mobile apps to get research data
Companies are excellent at offering apps and services in exchange for users' data. This approach can also be a big boost to scholarly research.
Big data has not revolutionised medicine – we need big theory alongside it
Big data is all well and good, but if we want medical breakthroughs, we'll need big theory too.
Online ads know who you are, but can they change you too?
New research shows that behaviorally targeted ads can do more than figure out what kind of person you are – they can also shape how you see yourself.
Surprisingly, the online advertising industry’s future may lie in offering more privacy, not less
There is a way to ensure online advertising, the free web, and privacy can all coexist together.
Clinton-Sanders data breach spat goes to the heart of modern campaigning
An unedifying row over "stolen" data has the Democrats' political staffers at loggerheads.
How computers help biologists crack life’s secrets
Modern biological research relies on big data analytics. Vast reservoirs of memory and powerful computing ability mean machines find patterns and make meta-analyses and even predictions for scientists.
How big data and The Sims are helping us to build the cities of the future
By simulating cities from the "bottom-up", scientists can help us plan for the future.
Snoopers’ Charter plans under fire from UK terror watchdog
David Anderson's report on surveillance isn't a charter for online privacy but it could create problems for a government set on capturing all our data.
Donate your data – how your digital footprint can be used for the public good
In the future it will be possible to donate our personal data to charitable causes. All sorts of data is recorded about us as we go about our daily lives – what we buy, where we go, who we call on the…
Your life is Facebook’s business model – like it or not
Facebook’s recent apology for its Year in Review feature, which had displayed to a grieving father images of his dead daughter, highlights again the tricky relationship between the social media behemoth…
Personal privacy is eroding as consent policies of Google and Facebook evoke ‘fantasy world’
We live in a world increasingly dominated by our personal data. Some of those data we choose to reveal, for example, through social media, email and the billions – yes, billions – of messages, photos and…
Data mining uncovers 19th century Britain’s fat habit
A collaboration between historians, text mining, and information visualisation researchers has thrown up new insight into the hunger for sugar, coffee and rubber in the 19th century, as well as how fat…
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Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Research Fellow in Text Mining, University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor of Environmental History, University of Saskatchewan
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Senior Lecturer in Technology, The Open University
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Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Data Science, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Biological Design, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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