Tag: data

• Data lakes: where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day

  October 23, 2019

  Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”.… more ›

• How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

  October 3, 2019

  The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come… more ›

• The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers

  September 22, 2019

  Bruno Rodriguez is only 18, but he has seen enough in his time on Earth to know that he must to do something for the planet. Inspired by the student… more ›

• Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial.

  September 2, 2019

  The first Whitney Annual in 1932 was transgressive. The museum was a one-year-old fledgling, set in a rowhouse on West Eighth Street. Its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a collector… more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›

• Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

  August 20, 2019

  In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized. https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/ more ›

• I found your data. It’s for sale.

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription. I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve… more ›

• More information about our processes to safeguard speech data

  July 12, 2019

  We’re focused on building products that work for everyone, and as part of this, we invest significant resources to ensure that our speech technology works for a wide variety of… more ›

• Data Ethics is important

  June 2, 2019

  The May issue of Admap puts the spotlight on data ethics. According to the Open Data Institute, data ethics is “a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the… more ›

• Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

  April 17, 2019

  According to the description, “These advertisers are running ads using a contact list they or their partner uploaded that includes info about you. This info was collected by the advertiser… more ›