Stories Tagged as
Data
Mark Zuckerberg won't talk to U.K. Parliament about Cambridge Analytica
by
Kai Ryssdal
Mar 27, 2018
The Facebook CEO can't be forced to testify, but it might hurt his reputation, our London bureau chief says.
I asked a security expert to reveal how Cambridge Analytica might target me based on my personality
by
Kai Ryssdal
Mar 26, 2018
And they might use the same tactics on you.
To delete or not to delete
by
Amy Scott
Mar 21, 2018
When it comes to Facebook, that is the question.
Facebook could use some friends
Mar 20, 2018
Facebook’s leaders are being called on to explain themselves before officials here and in Europe. The Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Cambridge Analytica, the company that improperly siphoned the data of millions of Facebook users to create political profiles, violated a consent agreement. Now, the fact your information is for sale on the internet […]
In Facebook we (no longer) trust?
Mar 19, 2018
The social network is reeling from another scandal in which our data was misused.
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the new data war
by
Molly Wood
Mar 19, 2018
How Cambridge Analytica may have impacted our elections and how Facebook helped.
Business books deliver new buzz words with the old hype
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Shaheen Ainpour
Jan 11, 2018
Want to realize your untapped potential? How about boost your ______. Those are the kind of promises that grace the cover of some of the 11,000 business books published in the United States each year. But has the language used to to market these books changed over time? Miriam Quick analyzed decades’ worth of business […]
For public good, not for profit.
Could big data unlock safer commutes for cyclists?
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Paul Flahive
Jan 8, 2018
There was a 64 percent increase in people biking to work between 2000-2012. With more cyclists on the roads, cities are struggling to keep up with infrastructure.
What to do when a couple of security flaws are affecting almost every computer in the world
Jan 4, 2018
An analyst walks us through the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.
We're about to know a lot more about podcasting behavior
Jun 16, 2017
Apple is set to launch data on when you listen to your favorite podcasts and where.