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The rhythms aren’t necessarily tied to hormones, nor any other single cause.
The federal government has softened its initial renewables-only stance.
AI data centres are contentious for consuming large resources. But with the right incentives and regulation, can they make for more flexible electricity systems?
A standardized framework for regulating the safety and efficacy of AI in healthcare has yet to be established.
A common misconception is that deletion equals total erasure. This is largely wrong.
Self-hosting is a general catch-all term for taking control of your own data. It comes in many flavours.
Grassroots activists and marginalized communities are ‘flipping the script’ on surveillance by watching, documenting and gathering information about powerful institutions such as ICE from below.
As Canada advances its national AI strategy, we must ask what digital migration data reveal, and what they leave unseen.
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
When prosecutors’ caseloads increase, so do dismissal rates.
Extreme storm surges can be predicted much faster with high accuracy thanks to a new AI model that helps researchers and practitioners improve coastal flood risk assessment and adaptation planning.
Is sharing your data worth what you’re getting out of it? That may be the wrong question to ask when you are thinking about whether to share.
The virtual world still runs on a very physical network – and states are waking up to the strategic implications.
Biases contained within historical datasets makes addressing what underpins automated decisions difficult – defining what is ‘fair’ is key.
An economist explores the gender data bias behind credit scoring and borrowing money from the bank that excludes women worldwide, denying them the same economic rights as men.
International sport organizations must stop ignoring athletes’ data protection rights when regulating sport, including eligibility in the women’s category
Trans people are consistently undercounted in data thanks to flawed practices in collection, analysis and sharing. And if we don’t fix this, policy and advocacy will fail to address their needs.
New US requirements for visa-free travel could involve sharing large amounts of biometric and law enforcement data, prompting concerns about privacy.
Policymakers should recognize open banking as part of Canada’s response to economic abuse and small business resilience, not only as a competition or financial sector reform.
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Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
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Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Demography and Public Policy, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Hong Kong
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Professor of Economics, emeritus, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Health Studies