happy mutants Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles Cory Doctorow

surveillance Why the FBI would be nuts to try to use chatbots to flush out terrorists online Cory Doctorow

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elections Clinton's data-driven "ground game" sucked in exactly the same way "targeted ads" suck, for the same reason Cory Doctorow

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Business Crimefighting for fun and profit: data-mining Medicare fraud and likely whistleblowers Cory Doctorow

health Listen: podcast about the alleged "data" collected by wearable devices Cory Doctorow

spooks NSA and GCHQ's crappy Big Data techniques may be killing thousands of innocents Cory Doctorow

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books Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data threatens democracy Cory Doctorow

corruption Ted Cruz campaign hires dirty data-miners who slurped up millions of Facebook users' data Cory Doctorow

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Business Ironically, modern surveillance states are baffled by people who change countries Cory Doctorow

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Science Big Data's religious faith denies the reality of failed promises, privacy Chernobyls Cory Doctorow