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Your personal data is incredibly valuable, and car manufacturers are getting in on it.

Cars are secretly spying on us

Customers As Commodities

Unless it's particularly old, your car is likely spying on you, sending an unsettling amount of information about you and your behavior to the manufacturer.

Cars Are Secretly Spying on Us

Your car is constantly sending out a massive torrent of information about you.

Data breaches and privacy scandals are increasingly commonplace, yet there never seem to be consequences.

Elizabeth Warren: if data gets stolen, throw tech CEOs in prison

Golden Handcuffs

Senator Warren just introduced a bill that would jail executives of billion-dollar tech companies from which users' personal info gets stolen.

Elizabeth Warren: If Data Gets Stolen, Throw Tech CEOs in Prison

Warren is tired of negligence being rewarded with golden parachutes.

When it comes to Facebook advertising scandals, history repeats itself.

Facebook reportedly let marketers advertise to Nazis

Worst Timeline

Once again, Facebook has been caught offering advertisers the ability to specifically market to neo-Nazis and people interested in Nazi music.

Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis

Advertisers can pay to make sure their messages reach neo-Nazis.

San Francisco built a system to track its homeless population

Privacy Tradeoff

San Francisco has a new "big data" approach to coordinate housing for its homeless population. It could help a lot of people, but compromises their privacy.

San Francisco Built a System to Track Homeless People

The system can coordinate help for the city's homeless, but requires a lot of personal data.

The study took place during the 2018 midterm elections.

Study: people who quit Facebook become less politically polarized

Quitting Facebook

Researchers found that quitting Facebook will make you spend more time with family and friends, be less politically polarized, but know less about the news.

Study: Quitting Facebook Makes You Less Politically Polarized

Does quitting Facebook give you a more balanced worldview?

Waymo's data analytics background makes it worth four times as much as GM, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.

Investors pour money into self-driving cars to capitalize on data

Treasure Trove

Wall Street investors seem to believe that the real value of autonomous vehicles comes from the data they'll collect, based on recent AV company valuations.

Investors Pour Money Into Self-Driving Cars to Capitalize on Data

"The value is in the data and what you can do with it."

1,300 photos of your kids will be online before they're teens

Picture (Im)Perfect

We need to do more to protect the data privacy of today's young people, who are being "datafied" from the moment they're born.

1,300 Photos of Your Kids Will Be Online Before They’re Teens

Today's children are being "datafied" from the moment they're born.

Microsoft's underwater data center is actually working, says CEO

Depth Charge

Microsoft's underwater data center off the cost of Scotland could be the first of many the company deploys to support its cloud technology.

Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center Is Actually Working, Says CEO

Cooling servers is hard work. Why not let the chilly ocean do it?

One day, powder might replace your USB stick.

We can now store data in the form of a powder

Dusty Data

Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.

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