privacy Not only is Google's auto-delete good for privacy, it's also good news for competition Cory Doctorow
privacy Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it "nuance" Cory Doctorow
events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Exclusive: "More Data": Negativland's video short about data privacy and surveillance Mark Hosler, Negativland
happy mutants Nonprofit will coordinate 30 global investigative journalists to report leaked stories of big data abuse Cory Doctorow
class war The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow
security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online Cory Doctorow
