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The Internet’s Original Sin – The Atlantic
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Pick Of the Week:“I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online content and services. Through successive rounds of innovation and investor storytime, we’ve trained Internet users to expect that everything they say and do online will be aggregated into profiles (which they cannot review, challenge, or change) that shape both what ads and what content they see.” (by
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Under the private copying exception, Britons will now be able to copy content they’ve bought or been given onto any device they own, as well as onto private cloud storage, Neville-Rolfe said, according to the Hansard, Parliament’s official report.
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Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum – NYTimes.com
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“Correlations are what motivate us to look further. If all that big data does — and it surely does more — is to point out interesting correlations whose fundamental reasons we unpack in other ways, that already has immense value” (Sendhil Mullainathan)
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