The consumer genetics company is opening its data set to some researchers—and recruiting others to make that data set more robust in the first place. https://media.wired.com/photos/5afe18b63fe898015baf3037/master/pass/dna-478186935.jpg
Tag: datamining
Facebook's data-mining woes deepen as company suspends another analytics firm
Cambridge Analytica was not an isolated incident: Facebook has suspended another data analytics firm for collecting user data for marketers in the name of academic research, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces the wrath of Congress. CubeYou gathered user information through quizzes, which were billed as being “for non-profit academic research,” and then shared this information […]
Study says Apple data-mining safeguards don’t protect privacy enough
During last year’s WWDC in June 2016, Apple noted it would be adopting some degree of differential privacy methods to ensure privacy while the company mined user data on iOS and Mac OS. In short, the technique adds noise to data that scrambles it enough to prevent it from becoming identifiable — though the company […]
