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Information extracted from copyrighted material should not be seen as an infringement. Such analytical use is good for society.
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.
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.
What governments and companies think they know about us – whether or not it's accurate – has real power over our actual lives.
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.
To ease the stress of commuting, don't ditch the bus – just make it smarter.
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.
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 is all well and good, but if we want medical breakthroughs, we'll need big theory 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.
There is a way to ensure online advertising, the free web, and privacy can all coexist together.
An unedifying row over "stolen" data has the Democrats' political staffers at loggerheads.
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.
By simulating cities from the "bottom-up", scientists can help us plan for the future.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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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Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham
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Research Fellow, Warwick Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Research Fellow, University of St Andrews
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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 Researcher in Innovation Management, University of Brighton
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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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Professor in Geocomputation, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Geographical Information Systems, University of Leeds
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