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Technology

Revealed: Mental health websites are selling your data to advertisers

Websites that provide resources about mental health conditions such as depression track individual users and share their data with advertisers.

News

Caroline Criado Perez

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Caroline Criado Perez: Inside the data gender gap

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Ola Rosling

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Factfulness: Why things are better than you think

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Technology

Why US police could be using your genes to profile you right now

Comment

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Life

Who owns life? The world is about to decide, with huge ramifications

Comment

Gloucestershire Constabulary has been using data analysis to identify potentially vulnerable children

Technology

Data trial identifies vulnerable children who may otherwise be missed

News

Two Accident and Emergency doctors discuss a case UK

Technology

Google is taking over DeepMind's NHS contracts – should we be worried?

Analysis

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Humans

The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?

Features

The hack involved personal data from around half a million customers

Technology

British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack

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Technology

What will your digital footprint tell people about you when you die?

From exposing sexual secrets to repairing a bad image, the digital afterlife and who controls it matters in unexpected ways, as a fascinating new book explains

Culture

Health

End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health

Comment

Technology

Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump?

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