Eric Ortiz / TruthdigApr 27, 2018
The 2016 Green Party presidential candidate supports the corruption probe but decries its misuse for warmongering, censorship and political repression. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
By John Cheney-LippoldMay 2, 2017
On websites like Facebook, our selves are not more free; they are more owned. And they are owned because we are now made of data. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu / ProPublicaDec 29, 2016
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 12, 2015
A data scientist’s experiment reveals surprising information about interconnected smart devices. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 3, 2015
Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions, a practice that raises new legal questions. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 20, 2015
Excessive reliance on data could influence even well-meaning politicians to lose sight of small-d democratic goals. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigMar 8, 2015
In theory, the changeover from paper to email should make government more transparent. But two New York politicos are showing that the era of Big Data does not necessarily mean the public gets a better view of its government. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 28, 2015
Barack Obama “makes George W. Bush and Richard Nixon look good by comparison," Truthdig's editor-in-chief told Salon in an interview about his new book, “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigDec 9, 2014
Whatever your views, you should want government programs to achieve what they set out to do. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 24, 2014
Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to use the money only for non-privacy research. Academics say such promises are problematic. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigJul 12, 2014
This is a column about "Big Data" and a new way to predict the results of presidential elections for the next 20 years. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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