Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy
Even the best laws will not lead to a safer internet. We need a sharper picture of the information apocalypse that awaits us in a world where personal data is traded to avert the catastrophy.
big data
Do you have a secret?
What would you do if the government asked you to hand over your computer?
The Internet in Real-Time
Watch as these internet giants accumulate wealth in real-time.
How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data
A Princeton University professor tried to hide her pregnancy from targeted online advertising for the past nine months. It wasn’t easy.
Confessions of a Data Broker
Acxiom’s CEO Scott Howe explains how self-regulation can work.
Not long ago, data brokers—companies that compile databases of consumer information and then sell them to marketers—toiled in the shadows of media and advertising, seen as largely responsible for those piles of junk mail. Then along came the Internet and the ability to track consumer browsing behavior, enabling data brokers to synch online and offline data. Brokers became the new villain in the privacy debate, subject to investigations by policy makers.
Beware of the Robot Pharmacist
In tech-driven medicine, alerts are so common that doctors and pharmacists learn to ignore them — at the patient’s risk.
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