Don't expect straight answers on data sharing from the firms that profit from it

Friday, August 14, 2015 - 07:10 in Mathematics & Economics

Data is a new currency of sorts: we all generate a lot of it, and many companies already use it to serve their ends or ours. But, for many very good reasons, it's not easy to persuade people that they should give their data away. There are more than enough surveillance scandals or data breaches to make an open approach seem like a bad idea.

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