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Australia made third highest number of requests for Apple data in the world
Apple received 2,357 “device requests” from the Australian government and law enforcement in the first half of 2018, the third-highest rate of requests in the world. The tech company published its twice-yearly transparency report on Friday, which reveals how many times governments asked Apple for data and information about iPhone, iPads, computers and Apple accounts.
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Why Should Anyone Believe Facebook Anymore?
If there is one message Facebook has been trying to send to the world in 2018, it's that the company understands it needs to rethink the way it operates. Facebook says it understands that it must better police the content that appears on its platforms. And as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal early this year, Facebook says it must be more effective in how it protects user data, more transparent about all the data it collects, and more clear about who has access to the data.
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5 big data and analytics trends to watch in 2019
Big data and analytics have become the backbone of business. But will that spine grow and mature, or will it morph the shape of business—again? Here is a look at the year ahead.
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Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”. Cook did not namecheck the adtech elephants in the room: Google, Facebook and other background data brokers that profit from privacy-hostile business models. But his target was clear.
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Major life insurer says it will require customers to wear health trackers
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday. The move by the 156-year-old insurer, owned by Canada's Manulife Financial Corp, marks a major shift for the company, which unveiled its first interactive life insurance policy in 2015. It is now applying the model across all of its life coverage.
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6 ways in which big data is taking a bite out of the food industry
Big data takes a seat at the (dining) table.
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India’s Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State — And U.S. Tech Companies Are On Board
Big U.S. technology companies are involved in the construction of one of the most intrusive citizen surveillance programs in history. For the past nine years, India has been building the world’s biggest biometric database by collecting the fingerprints, iris scans and photos of nearly 1.3 billion people. For U.S. tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, the project, called Aadhaar (which means “proof” or “basis” in Hindi), could be a gold mine.
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Cambridge Analytica's key staffers formed a new company that's working on Trump 2020
Cambridge Analytica declared bankruptcy last month, but it's not like all its evil masterminds joined a Buddhist monastery -- they've started a new company Data Propria, helmed by Cambridge Analytica alum Matt Oczkowski, who bragged in public that he and Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale were "doing the president’s work for 2020."
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If you thought Cambridge Analytica was scary, well this lot's f*cking terrifying
Meet Cambridge Analytica's bigger brother. By Tom Coburg.
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Facebook suspends Canadian firm AggregateIQ over data scandal
Facebook Inc said on Friday that it had suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform after reports that the data firm may have improperly had access to the personal data of Facebook users.
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Never mind Facebook, Google is the all-seeing big brother you should know about.
Google is a ‘Big Brother’ with capabilities beyond George Orwell’s wildest nightmares.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg says sorry to Britons with newspaper apology ads
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized to Britons on Sunday over a “breach of trust”, taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after a political consultancy got its hands on data on 50 million users. “We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it,” said the advert, signed by Facebook founder Zuckerberg. The world’s largest social media network is facing growing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States.
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Apple's Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has called for stronger privacy regulations that prevent the misuse of data in the light of the controversial leak of Facebook user information. Cook called for “well-crafted” regulations that prevent the information of users being put together and applied in new ways without their knowledge during a session on global inequality at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday.
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Cambridge Analytica academic who mined Facebook data: I’m a ‘scapegoat’
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher at the center of Facebook’s data breach allegations, said today he is being used as a “scapegoat” by the social network and Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm that acquired the data. “The events of the past week have been a total shell shock, and my view is that I’m being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica when… we thought we were doing something that was really normal,” Kogan told BBC 4’s Today Program.
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‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
The first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didn’t yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To put the genie back in the bottle. By the time I met him in person, I’d already been talking to him on a daily basis for hours at a time. On the phone, he was clever, funny, bitchy, profound, intellectually ravenous, compelling. A master storyteller. A politicker. A data science nerd.
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Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles
The British data firm described as “pivotal” in Donald Trump’s presidential victory was behind a ‘data grab’ of more than 50 million Facebook profiles, a whistleblower has revealed to Channel 4 News.
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The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
Picture this: You’re driving home from work, contemplating what to make for dinner, and as you idle at a red light near your neighborhood pizzeria, an ad offering $5 off a pepperoni pie pops up on your dashboard screen.
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Data is the new lifeblood of capitalism – don't hand corporate America control
One hundred and sixty years ago, the first transatlantic telegram traveled from Britain to the United States along a rickety undersea wire. It consisted of twenty-one words – and took seventeen hours to arrive. Today, the same trip takes as little as 60 milliseconds. A dense mesh of fiber-optic cables girdles the world, pumping vast quantities of information across the planet.
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How “Big Data” Went Bust
Sometimes big data doesn’t solve problems—it magnifies them. By Will Oremus.
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The microbiome and big data
Analysis of large microbial datasets contributes critical information for health care, epidemiology, agriculture, and biofuels.
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