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psychographics UK ICO report on Cambridge Analytica finds no illegal activity or Russian involvement Thom Dunn
content Netflix is reportedly experimenting with allowing viewers to control time Thom Dunn
immanentizing the eschaton 58" long CVS receipt scarf is only slightly shorter than actual CVS receipts Cory Doctorow
consumer data I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn
palantir Beatings—er, bonuses will continue at Palantir until morale improves Xeni Jardin
commons based peer-production A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow
Facebook insists that Cambridge Analytica didn't "breach" data, but "misused" it, and they're willing to sue anyone who says otherwise Cory Doctorow
training data Train your AI with the world's largest data-set of sarcasm, courtesy of redditors' self-tagging Cory Doctorow
greyball Uber uses data-mining to identify and block riders who may be cops, investigators or regulators Cory Doctorow
Researchers discover hundreds of thousands of unsuspected, Star Wars-themed twitterbots hiding in plain sight Cory Doctorow
text mining Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone Cory Doctorow
kafka meets orwell Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata Cory Doctorow
tracking How to live a spreadsheet approved life Rose Eveleth
champerty Crimefighting for fun and profit: data-mining Medicare fraud and likely whistleblowers Cory Doctorow
data science Big Data Ethics: racially biased training data versus machine learning Cory Doctorow
secret paymasters Revealed: the hidden web of big-business money backing Europe and America's pro-TTIP "think tanks" Cory Doctorow