Business Peter Thiel's Palantir to IPO within weeks, start trading before election Xeni Jardin

guns A fascinating computer analysis of the linguistic context around the 2nd Amendment Thom Dunn

fashion Scarves that look like those crazy-long CVS receipts Rusty Blazenhoff

privacy Not only is Google's auto-delete good for privacy, it's also good news for competition Cory Doctorow

privacy Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it "nuance" Cory Doctorow

books Crowdfunding a picture book about resisting surveillance Cory Doctorow

Business Collecting user data is a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Exclusive: "More Data": Negativland's video short about data privacy and surveillance Mark Hosler, Negativland

web theory Open dataset of 1.78b links from the public web, 2016-2019 Cory Doctorow

big data Big Data's "theory-free" analysis is a statistical malpractice Cory Doctorow

picks 20,000 Dear Abby letters analyzed in study of "American" anxieties Rob Beschizza

News In U.S. prisons, women are disciplined at a higher rate than men Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Nonprofit will coordinate 30 global investigative journalists to report leaked stories of big data abuse Cory Doctorow

class war The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow

security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Syllabus for a course on Data Science Ethics Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online Cory Doctorow

videos Facebook insists that Cambridge Analytica didn't "breach" data, but "misused" it, and they're willing to sue anyone who says otherwise Cory Doctorow