Aug 23 Watch Mistaken identity in background checks can cost applicants job offers By PBS News Hour Today, nearly 90 percent of employers run a check on at least some of their applicants. As more employers throughout the country use background checks to review job applicants, NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson takes a look at the job-screening process,… Continue watching
Jul 31 Watch Holder: Big data is leading to ‘fundamental unfairness’ in drug sentencing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 30 Many hospitals struggle to understand their own cost data By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News “To think that health care is this ‘ginormous’ business that doesn’t understand costs is mind-blowing,” said Vivian Lee, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah, an academic medical center with four hospitals and 1,330 physicians. In… Continue reading
May 08 Republican data strategy for 2014: community organizing By Ellen Rolfes At its annual spring meeting in Memphis, the Republican National Committee formally launched a grassroots field program called Victory 365, which is designed to enable Republican campaigns to better use voter data across their efforts. Continue reading
May 05 Your next mixtape could hold more songs than tens of thousands of iPods combined By Justin Scuiletti Sony debuted a new tape format Sunday at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, Germany that can hold 148 gigabytes of data per square inch; shattering a previous magnetic tape record of 29.5 gigabytes. If packed into a… Continue reading
May 02 White House seeks stronger privacy laws for big data By Eileen Sullivan, Julie Pace, Associated Press The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more safeguards for Americans' data and provide more protections for emails sought in the course of a law enforcement investigation. Continue reading
Feb 17 New political TV ads can target individual homes By Philip Elliott, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals. And, in some places, they can reach those… Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch How companies use tech that tracks you at home and on the road By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch What’s the future of privacy in a big data world? By PBS News Hour Technologies that track data can make life more efficient, but can they go too far? Jeffrey Brown talks to technology and privacy experts Jules Polonetsky and Adam Thierer for more on why corporations should avoid being "creepy" and why it's… Continue watching