Politico reports: The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate […]
By Matt Luchette May 15, 2014 | In the era of big data, drug developers are pushing for data
analysis to keep up with increased data acquisition. At this April’s Bio-IT
World Conference & Expo, Andrea DeSouza, from the Broad Institute, and Anne
Mai Wassermann, from Novartis, spoke on new technologies they hope will squeeze
meaning from researchers’ mounds of data.At the Broad […]
San Francisco played host to a special mirrored room last month for an impressive illustration of big data. Software giant Microsoft was in town for its SQL Server 2014 launch party, and the carefully choreographed room was the centerpiece of the company’s push towards data analysis. The Infinity Room mixes LED animations, pixel spheres, and a narrative around how a […]
Big data companies collect, mine and sell 75k personal details on each customer
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By Aaron Krol May 14, 2014 | More than a hundred companies set up booths at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to demonstrate their products, but it seems safe to say only one of them
could claim the Miami Heat as a customer.Ayasdi, whose eclectic client base also includes Merck, General
Electric, Citigroup, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, […]
Fears About Big Data Unfounded, Report Says
By Anne L. Kim Posted at 8 a.m. on May 14
A report from the Technology Policy Institute says there’s no evidence that big data harms privacy. “Privacy advocates, scholars and public officials have raised concern over a number of potential privacy threats from big data,” the think tank’s report says. “As of now there is […]
There are 6.7 million women in the U.S. who have trouble conceiving, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and only a fraction of them are using the services that could help them.Behind that dry statistic are harrowing stories from people (including friends of mine) involving experience with fertility clinics.Indeed, the number of women in the U.S. who […]
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging […]
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BI IntelligenceThe world is awash in data.
The advent of smartphone-based computing had led to much more internet-based activity, as well as new opportunities to collect location data. The consumer stampede into social media means that the tastes, preferences, and frustrations of billions are shared online. In a couple of recent reports from BI Intelligence, we take stock of how […]
