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What’s a digital footprint and how can I shrink mine?

Hilary Armstrong — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:57:52 +0000

Our personal data is a prized asset that’s traded online without our knowledge. Here’s how to take back some agency

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Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines

Robin Eveleigh — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:21:57 +0000

We are bombarded by doom-laden predictions on the climate. But the data often tells a more hopeful story

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A socially responsible Facebook ‘replacement’? Investor launches a competition to fund one

Gavin Haines — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:00:59 +0000

Facebook has faced fresh controversy this week when founder Mark Zuckerberg said Holocaust denial should not be banned on the platform. Meanwhile, concern around data privacy has spiralled following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A new competition seeks designs for a ‘social network that is actually good for society’

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Big game, big data

Gavin Haines — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:20:10 +0000

In the Kenyan savannah, conservationists have joined forces with large tech companies in a bid to protect elephants from poachers. It’s just one way in which big data is being used to save threatened species, discovers Gavin Haines

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