Advancement of artificial intelligence opens health data privacy to attack
Advances in artificial intelligence have created new threats to the privacy of health data, a new UC Berkeley study shows.
Dec 24, 2018
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New study reveals why Facebook ads can miss target
New research from North Carolina State University offers insight into why Facebook's targeted advertising can sometimes be more like a wild pitch. Researchers already knew Facebook creates interest profiles for users based ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales
An international team of researchers from Tübingen and Cold Spring Harbor (New York) has found a pioneering way of determining at what pace changes typically happen. The new method avoids previous systematic errors in estimating ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Big data can render some as 'low-resolution citizens'
In India, a government database where 1.25 billion residents are identified with fingerprints and photographs has created a bureaucratic infrastructure, that while meant to bring marginalized citizens into the fold, can sometimes ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Emotion recognition has a privacy problem—here's how to fix it
With devices listening everywhere you go, privacy concerns are endemic to advancing technology. Especially sensitive are different techniques powered by audio from your smartphones and speakers, putting consumers in a constant ...
Feb 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
House size a factor in tackling global climate emergency
New research led by the University of St Andrews reveals that in order to achieve ambitious global climate change targets, energy policy must factor in that average space per person is increasing in homes.
Dec 18, 2019
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Algorithms trained on historical data make more accurate forecasts of population changes than demographic modeling
Machine learning algorithms can be used to make accurate forecasts about changes in population, according to research published in the International Journal of Data Science. The work demonstrates that the best of the available ...
May 17, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Subtle signals can influence whether people trust online recommendations
Subtle labels that tip off how online recommendation systems choose their selections, such as book and movie choices, may influence whether people trust those systems, according to a team of researchers. They may also tip ...
May 3, 2022
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Internet
Profile matching of online users across multiple social networks
It is perhaps a significant concern that internet users willingly and sometimes unwittingly share their personal and private information through online social networks without a second thought for how that information might ...
Apr 29, 2022
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The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game
Game theory, which tries to predict how the behavior of competitors influences the choices the other players make, can help researchers find the best ways to share biomedical data while protecting the anonymity of the people ...
Dec 16, 2021
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