Data Mining

• Website uses artificial intelligence to generate realistic human faces from scratch

  Every time a visitor to the website, ThisPersonDoesNotExist, reloads the page, an algorithm generates a lifelike human that doesn't actually belong to anyone. 

  Tech

  Feb 17, 2019
  
• Facebook’s plummeting stock largely a product of its own making

  Facebook faced a day of reckoning Thursday as its shares plunged in the biggest one-day drop in stock-market history.

  Consumer

  Jul 26, 2018
  
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• Trump 2020 campaign working with former Cambridge Analytica officials: AP report

  A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.

  Politics

  Jun 15, 2018
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• Not just Facebook: How retailers and the payments industry can track, profile you

  Canada must adopt rules that make privacy the default, Ontario's former privacy commissioner says.

  Money

  Mar 31, 2018
• Liberal party uses Remembrance Day to identify potential supporters

  The Liberal party is using the solemn occasion to continue trying to accumulate information on potential supporters and donors.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2015
• Identity scrubbing: Can you ever really erase your personal data from the web?

  The hack of cheating site Ashley Madison has many wondering, can you ever really scrub your personal data from the web. Unfortunately, most experts say no.

  Canada

  Jul 21, 2015
• Facebook ‘block party’ events might not be what they seem

  Facebook "block parties" may not be the communal celebrations you think they are.

  Apr 29, 2015