Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By Christina Pici, Staff Writer In a world where technology is at the forefront of people’s everyday lives, data protection has become an unavoidable topic. Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise, or loss.[1] In general, data security refers specifically […]
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EU’s GDPR Places a Global Check on Data Collection Practices
By Natalia Holliday, Editor-in-Chief The digital age brought the digitization of just about every aspect of our lives into data points, to be analyzed and used by businesses, researchers, and the government to further their respective causes. Our “digital fingerprints” allow entities to predict our behaviors en masse and target […]
Beyond FarmVille: Facebook Harvests More Than Digital Crops
By Samantha Cook, Staff Writer “If something is free, you’re not the customer – you’re the product.” While free for users, Facebook turns its consumer data into a huge profit. Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower from the U.K. consulting firm Cambridge Analytica came forward recently about what he considered to […]