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It's Time For Facebook To Stop Talking And Start Listening
Perhaps in a world where social media platforms actually listened to the voices they were designed to empower, they could…
Zuckerberg Silently Deletes His Past Into The Orwellian Memory Hole
Zuckerberg is secretly airbrushing away his past, silently reaching into other peoples' private Messenger inboxes to selectively delete any imperfect…
Interview About Facebook On South Korea's "This Morning" on eFM 101.3
Kalev was interviewed this morning on South Korea's tbs eFM This Morning about the Facebook story. Listen to The Show….
Facebook's Medical Research Project Shows It Just Doesn't Understand Consent
To Facebook we are all just data points to be secretly exploited, rather than human individuals whose informed consent must…
The Data Brokers So Powerful Even Facebook Bought Their Data – But They Got Me Wildly Wrong
If we are to have a societal reckoning about privacy, we need to stop talking just about Facebook and start…
Why Are We Just Finding Out Now That All Two Billion Facebook Users May Have Been Harvested?
The real story is not Facebook's revelation of two billion harvested profiles – it's why it took until now to…
The Algorithms Take Over: Will Facebook's Private Message Scanning Lead To Autonomous Censorship?
With Zuckerberg’s acknowledgement this past Monday that Facebook secretly scans all of our private messages, a key unanswered question is…
The Cloud Is Rising To The Cybersecurity Challenge
In a world of seemingly hourly data breaches, can the transition to the cloud help businesses reimagine how they manage…
How Google Earth And Google Maps Taught Us To See The World From Above
Looking back at how one university reacted 15 years ago to the rise of high resolution aerial imagery and a…
Do We Have The Right To Hide From Facebook's AI Algorithms?
As Facebook deploys an ever-growing number of machine learning algorithms to process its users’ posts and private communications, from facial…
Geoversiv's Peace Synapse
Geoversiv's beautiful work of art called the "Peace Synapse" is a network visualization built using the GKG and was featured…
How Data Brokers And Pharmacies Commercialize Our Medical Data
In a world in which our most intimate medical ailments are merely commodity data points to be bought and sold…
Facebook Keeps Saying 'Trust Us': Is It Finally Time To Say No More?
Facebook’s unblinking algorithms silently shape what we see and say without us having any right to understand the rules they…
Towards Data Science: Machine Learning Platform for Data Analysis
A pilot exploration of bitcoin price prediction with technical stack details. Read The Full Article.
Predicting Community Engagement On Reddit Using TensorFlow, GDELT, And Cloud Dataflow: Part 3
Google's Sergei Sokolenko, Cloud Dataflow Product Manager, wrote this fantastic tutorial showcasing how to predict community engagement on Reddit around…
WashPost: The more important woman in the news recently? Hillary Clinton — at least at Fox
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the Television Explorer to compare coverage of Stormy Daniels versus Hillary Clinton on the…
Vox: How Fox News turned the March for Our Lives into an attack on the 2nd Amendment
Vox's Alvin Chang uses the Television Explorer to compare how the different networks covered the "March for Our Lives" event….
Facebook's Response To Its Phone Record Harvesting Shows Nothing Has Changed
Facebook's tone deaf response to its harvesting of phone records, that it is our fault for giving it permission without…
Could AI Bots Replace Human Tech Support?
The sad state of frontline tech support raises the question of whether AI bots could take it all over and…
What The New Google Maps Game API Says About Data As A Platform And The Future Of The Cloud
Google’s new augmented reality platform wraps up its massive database of 100 million 3D objects and 25 million daily updates,…
Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Inventory Sheet With Charset And Language Breakdown
NOTE (9/1/2019): A new version of this linguistic inventory sheet is available with better accuracy and coverage for all site…
A First Look At Three Weeks Of The Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Through BigQuery
The newest addition to the GDELT family, the GDELT 3.0 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) has been running every hour for…
AI Already Controls What We See Online, Should It Also Control What We Say?
Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly enamored of the idea of using AI to proactively delete “offensive” speech before it is…
Business For Breakfast Interview On Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Story
Kalev's interview with Jimmy Sengenberger's Business for Breakfast aired today about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story. Listen To The Interview.