Apple’s plan to scan your phone raises the stakes on a key question: Can you trust Big Tech?
Big Tech makes a lot of promises about protecting privacy, but the reality is that using the industry’s products is a matter of trust.
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Data science education lacks a much‑needed focus on ethics
Undergraduate programs are springing up across the US to meet the burgeoning demand for workers trained in big data. Yet many of the programs lack training in the ethical use of data science.
The big data challenge and how Africa can benefit
Big data is about processing large amounts of data. It is often associated with multiplicities of data. But the ability to generate data outpaces the ability to store it.
How computing power can help us look deep within our bodies, and even the Earth
Pairing more powerful computers with increasingly sensitive scanners can yield many benefits in medicine and other fields.
China’s plan to put two‑faced citizens on credit blacklist isn’t all that foreign
China plans to create a credit reporting system that ranks people on trustworthiness using a all kinds of data, from finances to Facebook. Sound far-fetched? It’s happening in the US too.
Size doesn’t matter in Big Data, it’s what you ask of it that counts
Big Data produces mountains of information, but it’s useless for science unless we’re asking the right questions.
Explainer: what is big data?
Big Data, as the name implies, relates to very large sets of data collected through free or commercial services on the internet. This massive amount of data arises from sensors, posts to social networking…
How Indonesian politicians misuse the term ‘big data’ to delay the next presidential election
People should be more careful before making conclusions from what appears on social media.
Taking the ‘creepy’ out of Big Data
Big Data has a reputation for being creepy; the domain of “Big Business” and “Big Government”. At best it’s the driver of relentless advertising, uniquely targeted and eerily reminiscent of our most recent…
The dangers of big data extend to farming
Big data from social media have been revealed as biased, but we should also pay attention to agriculture firms whose play for big data is likely to have detrimental environmental and social impacts.
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