Noteworthy Information

Election software used by Boris Johnson and Donald Trump caught in Facebook privacy row

Remember last week when I profiled NationBuilder, the election software used by both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump? Well, it turns out NationBuilder has been buying voters' data from a company accused by Facebook of vioolating its users' privacy.


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Trust :: Data

Sandy Pentland (of social physics fame) is now interested in 'Developing privacy-preserving identity systems and safe distributed computation, enabling an Internet of Trusted Data.'