Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Open source intelligence purchases that would require a warrent to be collected directly

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 The NYT has the story: N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says  By Charlie Savage, January 25 "The National...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Data privacy concerns in the U.S. and Europe

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A selection from many news stories that touch on data privacy concerns (in the U.S. about Tiktok, in Europe about Facebook...and about DNA):...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Snowden and state surveillance: the view from The Guardian, ten years later

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 Here's a look back at the Snowden affair (publication of documents about government surveillance) by the then editor in chief of the Gu...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Privacy and data gathered by home devices

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  Does your robot vacuum cleaner make a map of your house as it moves around, and store it on the web?  Could the fact that your kitchen cha...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Your digital trail, in cyberspace and in public spaces

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 Here are two recent privacy-related stories about how the digital trails we leave can be combined in surprising ways. From the NYT a story ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Facebook data, abortion prosecution, and search warrents

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 The Guardian has the story: Facebook gave police their private data. Now, this duo face abortion charges   Experts say it underscores the i...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Evidence based medical policy: compensation for donors, by Luke Semaru and Arthur Matas in the AJT

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The American Journal of Transplantation has posted ahead of print a great article proposing clinical trials of a sensible system by which ki...
Monday, July 4, 2022

American data privacy, post Roe

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 As we plunge ahead into the post-Roe era, American laws about abortion are going to be very divided. Some states will seek to criminalize n...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Pregnancy in Poland, a database and anti-abortion laws

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 The Lancet recently reported on new pregnancy data being collected in Poland, and controversy on whether and how it might be used in enforc...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Personal data as a national (not international) resource

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  The NY Times has the story: The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending . Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their ...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Data for the people: Emily Oster in the NY Times

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The NY Times writes about Emily Oster , who has pioneered a new way for an economist to be a public intellectual, by bringing to a general a...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report

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  Here's the USRDS Annual Data Report for 2020 . Volume 2 concerns End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Incidence, Prevalence, Patient Charact...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Data use agreements, and university research policies regarding restrictions on publication

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  Since the beginning of the year, I've been sent several Data Use Agreements from organizations interested in the possibility of sharin...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Understanding Big Data:Data Calculus In The Digital Era : report from the Luohan Academy

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  Here's a new report from the Luohan Academy Understanding Big Data:Data Calculus In The Digital Era    Feb 05, 2021  Authors Luohan Co...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Reforming stock exchange governance, from the SEC

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It's good to know that sometimes the SEC reads papers by market designers (in this case Budish et al.): Statement on Reforming Stock ...