Big data companies collect, mine and sell 75k personal details on …
Big data companies collect, mine and sell 75k personal details on each customer
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Regulating big data: Rules for the new tools | The Economist
WHEN the internet was gathering steam in the mid 1990s, White House policy wonks got together under President Clinton’s nerdy aide, Ira Magaziner, to find ways to support it. Principles emerged like the “tax free internet” (ie, no punishing tariffs on ecommerce). Today, with big data in the headlines, a new gaggle of policy geeks have put forward a plan […]
As the Stock Market Looks for New Highs, Republicans Strangle The …
News generally consists of newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events, that can serve to inform a population about events that may affect their lives. One news story is hardly sufficient to reveal the true nature or features of either a person or an organization, but when news is reported over time from different sources and […]
U.S. Justice Department to look at high-frequency stock trading
The Department of Justice is investigating high-frequency stock trading to see if any of the practices violate insider trading laws, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.“The Department is […]
Attorney General Eric Holder says Department of Justice … – iPolitics
The Department of Justice is investigating high-frequency stock trading to see if any of the practices violate insider trading laws, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.“The Department is […]
At Berkeley, experts mine questions of Big Data, power and privacy
BERKELEY Introducing the first of four panels of experts at Tuesday’s daylong workshop on “Big Data: Values and Governance,” UC Berkeley’s Deirdre Mulligan compared and contrasted today’s era of information overload with 1973, when Americans typed on IBM Selectrics and banked with human tellers.Deirdre Mulligan: Looking at how information is “crossing borders and boundaries.”Mulligan, an assistant professor in […]
Valliere: Hillary Clinton Stock Market – Business Insider
REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueHillary ClintonPotomac Research Group’s Greg Valliere says having Hillary Clinton as president could be great for stocks.
The odds of another Clinton presidency, assuming the former senator and first lady runs, are strong, he says, because the Republican field remains weak. Plus, the GOP continues to struggle among key demographics, including Hispanics and young people.He writes:WHAT WOULD THIS MEAN FOR […]
For big data, big thinking | Harvard Gazette
The information is vast, the challenges daunting, and the tools statistical. But in the end, Harvard’s new class on big data is as much about people as it is about methodology.The 29 students in “Statistics 183, Learning from Big Data,” work in teams that shift every few weeks, tackling challenges that involve enormous data sets. The students brainstorm and learn […]
Obamacare Sentiment After “Between Two Ferns” | Twitter Trends …
SharePinterestFacebookEmailIn case you were paying too much attention to the crises in Ukraine or Venezuela, President Obama went on Zach Galifianakis’ internet show, “Between Two Ferns,” to push Obamacare.The president’s appearance on the show is part of a larger PR push that the Obama administration is conducting leading up to the March 31 open enrollment deadline. Reports from the White […]
Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy | The White House
Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy
John PodestaMarch 20, 2014 03:46 PM EDT Share This PostIn January, President Obama charged me with leading a […]
