Data can be used for good, harnessed for the betterment of society, but it can also be abused. Find out about some hidden not-so-sunny uses of Big Data and check out TED’s “The Dark Side of Data” playlist of lectures:
1. Malte Spitz, Your phone company is watching
2. Mikko Hypponen, How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust — time to act
3. Heather Brooke, My battle to expose government corruption
4. Ben Goldacre, Battling bad science
5. Alessandro Acquisti, Why privacy matters
6. Hasan Elahi, FBI, here I am!
7. Mikko Hypponen, Three types of online attack
8. Kevin Slavin, How algorithms shape our world
9. Avi Rubin, All your devices can be hacked
10. Todd Humphreys, How to fool a GPS
11. Christopher “moot” Poole, The case for anonymity online
