Reporting on data security and privacy: Tips from Dipayan Ghosh
Privacy engineer Dipayan Ghosh offers tips to help journalists improve their coverage of data security and privacy issues, including the GDPR.
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Data security: Research on privacy in the digital age
Research on consumer attitudes toward digital privacy and the practices of tech companies that shape data collection and use policies.
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Commercial drones in the U.S.: Privacy, ethics, economics — and journalism
2015 review of research on the use of drone aircraft by commercial organizations and government agencies, and the dilemmas it poses, including public safety and individual privacy.
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Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness
2011 study from the University of Toronto and MIT Sloan School of Management on the effectiveness of contextual and high-visual online advertising campaigns.
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The state of Internet privacy in 2013: Research roundup
2013 collection of recent research on Internet privacy, including the ways that it can be breached, protection strategies and issues of responsibility.
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NSA surveillance: Clarifying and distinguishing two data collection programs
July 2013 Congressional Research Service report providing key background information on the National Security Agency surveillance programs. Also included are related papers and scholarly perspectives.
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Unique in the crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
2013 study in Scientific Reports demonstrating that small amounts of geographical data from cell phones can be used to identify individuals.
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Privacy protection strategies on Facebook
2013 study from the University of Maryland and the University of Western Ontario on young adults’ social and institutional privacy strategies on Facebook.
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What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list
2013 research review on the growing ability of computers to gather, analyze, link and compare large data sets, with a look at the deep implications for how the information business may evolve.
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Facebook, private traits and attributes: Predictions from digital records of human behavior
2013 study from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) and Microsoft Research published in PNAS on Facebook data and privacy.
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