Data

A recent court decision in India could provide some guidelines, but every solution should be based on an individual country's needs, demographics, and history.

• By Hollie Russon-Gilman

Author Bruce Schneier warns about the coming hyper-networked world where all your devices are talking to each other.

• By David M. Perry

A recent vote further damages the government's ability to accurately study the nation's access to broadband—and it could damage the 2020 census.

• By Amir Nasr

Concerned citizens, scientists, and conservation groups have joined forces to protect what stopover spots remain for birds migrating from South America to the Arctic.

• By Sue Palminteri

How can universities convince them to share that information?

• By Francie Diep

A conversation with professor Frank Baumgartner, who led a research team that analyzed every North Carolina police stop since 2002.

• By Tanvi Misra

The past year has been marked by massive data breaches; It's time to start discussing not just what data companies are collecting on us, but, also, how they're safeguarding it.

• By Ilana Ullman

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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We spoke with social-science ethicists about how well Facebook's initiative appears to protect users' privacy. They're skeptical, but still eager to see Facebook data studied.

• By Francie Diep

The American Museum of Natural History has enlisted coders to build visualizations of its massive amounts of ecological data.

• By Jessica Leber

Until we find more certainty regarding how cybersecurity statistics are reported, we won't be to able to fully understand the scope of the problem.

• By Josephine Wolff

Research shows that machine learning can improve the way we place refugees in the United States.

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

After collecting thousands of data points from a crowdsourced initiative, the Virginia Institute for Marine Science created maps that will improve regional flooding predictions.

• By Jessica Leber

A collection of East African nations are working together to curb the economically and environmentally harmful practice.

• By Paul Tullis

Communities need hard data to prove they're been affected by pollution. But the government databases that keep track of those numbers are now under threat.

• By Francie Diep

It has gotten to the point that no official count of pregnancy-related deaths in this country or official maternal mortality rate even exists.

• By Robin Fields & Joe Sexton

The gaps in data damage efforts to understand the nature and scope of violence driven by racial and religious hatred.

• By A.C. Thompson & Ken Schwencke

Here's why that's bad news.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Donald Trump’s “law and order” mantra reveals a significant problem in how we assess our safety at home.

• By Jared Keller

By leaving out crucial statistics, the Netflix phenomenon plays into clichés about murdered women.

• By Starre Vartan

The National Security Agency has your data. Is there a way to use it that won't further violate your privacy?

• By Nathan Collins

The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.

• By Susie Cagle

For roughly 30 years the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals.

• By T. Christian Miller

Even our most personal health conditions are part of a vast but hidden market for our medical data. Don't we deserve to know about it?

• By Adam Tanner