A conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explored ways of protecting the information gained from big data efforts. [Scientific American]
From the MIT conference: Who’s winning the war of big data versus privacy? [InformationWeek]
Civil rights groups are fighting against high-tech profiling. [Washington Post]
Twitter can detect and potentially prevent outbreaks of HIV. [UCLA, via Mashable]
Information from large data sets is being used to discourage anti-vaccine activism. [Forbes]
What is synthetic problem solving, and why are companies like Google and Amazon using it? [VentureBeat]
A defense of Common Core, using analysis from big data. [Brookings]
“The state of cybersecurity: Scary as hell, but getting better.” [GigaOm]
How one family’s tragedy was exacerbated by holes in information security. [Wall Street Journal – paywall]
Video: Data can predict – and potentially control – human behavior. [The Economist]
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Lauren Caldwell, Rachel Ostrow, and Sandra Zuniga Guzman contributed to this post.
