A new study has found law enforcement agencies spent $4.75 million on social media monitoring tools between 2013 and 2016 to surveil the public and investigate possible crimes, although this sum is “massively understated”…
Big Data Exposes How Politically Connected Traders Cashed In During the Financial Crisis by David Sirota…
Big Data — those sprawling algorithms that can track and predict patterns in human behavior — often conjures up fears of a big-brother police state. But those same data-sets could be harnessed to uncover and expose Wall Street excesses…
How to See Everything Google Knows About You…
This week the company rolled out a new tool called “My Activity,” which shows you almost everything you do online related to your Google account…