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Big Data
August 2, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk’s Insidious New Strategy to Help Trump Win
Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.
December 27, 2021
Nick Tabor
Is New Orleans Trading Internet Access for Corporate Surveillance?
The city’s plan to use smart streetlights to deliver free WiFi is causing alarm about who will own New Orleanians’s data.
December 10, 2021
Zephyr Teachout
Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You
Yes, the tech monopolies still have enormous power. But encouraging change is afoot. We just need a lot more of it.
April 26, 2021
Jacob Silverman
You’re Still the Loser in Apple and Facebook’s War Over Privacy
What the Apple versus Facebook fight dramatizes is less two competing visions of the internet than which tech titan’s walled garden one might prefer.
January 14, 2019
Magazine
Anna Altman
Mommy and Data
“Femtech” companies are marketing themselves to women who are worried about having kids. Are these startups alleviating female anxieties or exploiting them?
November 6, 2018
Sean Williams
Anatomy of a Successful Anti-Gentrification Protest
Step One: Recruit some German socialist-punk record shop owners.
October 18, 2018
Magazine
Sue Halpern
Mind Games
How campaigns are using marketing, manipulation, and "psychographic targeting" to win elections—and weaken democracy
April 6, 2016
Magazine
Paul Ford
What Should We Do About Big Data Leaks?
The internet makes critical information accessible. Now let’s make it usable.
March 8, 2016
Magazine
Paul Ford
When the Internet Asks You to Fill Out A Form, Do It
They’re a vestige of an internet utopia that never came to be.
February 18, 2016
Magazine
Paul Ford
Does Amazon’s Data Speak for Itself?
Finding meaning in the retailer's mountain of information isn't easy.
December 14, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
The Ted Cruz campaign built a voter “personality test,” so neurotic gun owners see ads with a robber breaking into a home.
August 13, 2015
The New Republic Staff
The Database of the Dead
Are you in it?
August 13, 2015
Paul Ford
The Final File
Exploring the Social Security administration’s list of America’s dead
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