Big Data Conversations Need a Big Data Definition
As part of my day job, I recently recapped the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop on “Big Data” and discrimination. My two key takeaways were...
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32 ArticlesPlaying Cupid: All's Fair in Love in the Age of Big Data?
After a three year dry spell, OkCupid’s fascinating OkTrends blog roared to life on Monday with a post by Christian Rudder, cofounder of the...
Read MoreDeveloping Consensus on the Ethics of Data Use
Information is power, as the saying goes, and big data promises the power to make better decisions across industry, government, and everyday life. Data...
Read MoreAverage Folks and Retailer Tracking
Yesterday evening, I found myself at the Mansion on O Street, whose eccentric interior filled with hidden doors, secret passages, and bizarrely themed rooms, seemed...
Read MoreAverage Folks and Retailer Tracking
Yesterday evening, I found myself at the Mansion on O Street, whose eccentric interior filled with hidden doors, secret passages, and bizarrely themed rooms, seemed...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court's Say on Surveillance?
Big national security news yesterday: a federal court judge has ruled that the NSA’s Section 215 metadata collection program is an unconstitutional violation of...
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown and Collapse: A Constitutional Crisis Caused by Rural America
As this government shutdown has come to absorb not merely the day-to-day functioning of government but also our national health care policy and the...
Read MoreWhose Hypothetical Horribles?
Released last fall, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt’s The Human Face of Big Data is a gorgeous, coffee table book that details page after...
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