Television executives TV manufacturer Vizio makes more money selling data than TVs Thom Dunn

psychographics UK ICO report on Cambridge Analytica finds no illegal activity or Russian involvement Thom Dunn

video speeds 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

full-service propaganda machine 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

not the bots you're looking for 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

microbiome How to live a spreadsheet approved life Rose Eveleth

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

gigo 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

data mining UK spy agency posts data-mining software to Github Cory Doctorow

retailers Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold to pay creditors Xeni Jardin