As you cruise around the internet, you generate an exhaust of rich personal data: your name, your friends’ names, your birthday, your last known location, your weakness for cat photos … and on and on.
Companies like Facebook and Google hoover that data up and sell it for profit. How much profit, exactly? One estimate says less than a dollar, while others put it as high as $100.
A proposed new law would force tech giants to tell users just how much they can make off this private info. It’s a nice idea, writes University of Virginia’s Samuel Lengen, but it’s not going to work.
A proposed bill would force tech companies to tell users how much their data is worth. But how can a single number capture data's power to predict your actions or sway your decisions?
Recent scandals involve economic development programs in New Jersey and Maryland highlight their many flaws, including a lack of oversight and their ineffectiveness.
Recent advances in technology and new trends in commercial air travel could make supersonic flight economically viable. But regulations will have to change first.
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong; María de la Macarena Iribarne González, University of Wollongong
Mexico is the second most dangerous country for women in Latin America. Yet the new government is slashing funding for programs meant to protect and empower women.
Gregory F. Treverton, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Robert Hutchings, University of Texas at Austin
The National Intelligence Council works inside government but is little understood outside. Yet it has helped respond to almost all the major foreign policy challenges of the last 40 years.
While there's still a great deal that is unknown about sex trafficking, research studies and nonprofits have been able to gather telling data on this industry's victims and perpetrators.
Are you sleep deprived? Don't worry. That might make the situation worse. Instead, make some simple adjustments, such as staying off digital devices an hour before bedtime.
