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Data Mining
April 26, 2021
Jacob Silverman
You’re Still the Loser in Apple and Facebook’s War Over Privacy
What the Apple versus Facebook fight dramatizes is less two competing visions of the internet than which tech titan’s walled garden one might prefer.
December 14, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
The Ted Cruz campaign built a voter “personality test,” so neurotic gun owners see ads with a robber breaking into a home.
June 7, 2013
Rachel Levinson-Waldman
Against Our Values—And Bad at Keeping Us Safe
The real problem with data mining

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