Tagged: Data

New data privacy rules are coming in NZ — businesses and other organisations will have to lift their games - Guest Work

Guest Author • Nov 17, 2020 •

• Data,
• privacy

Anca C. Yallop, Auckland University of Technology Most people these days are aware that what they share online is both valuable and vulnerable. Data privacy has become a major concern for consumers and corporations alike. The issue will come to a head when New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 comes into force on December 1. The legislation replaces and updates … Read More

The IDI and government data linking - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Oct 09, 2018 •

• Data,
• Integrated Data Infrastructures,
• statistics

Browsing on The Treasury’s website the other day, it was the title that caught my eye: “Talkin’ about a revolution”.   I’m rather wary of revolutions.  Even when –  not always, or perhaps even often –  good and noble ideas help inspire them, the outcomes all too often leave a great deal to be desired.   There are various, … Read More

Tossing away valuable emigration data - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Aug 27, 2018 •

• Data,
• departure cards,
• emigration,
• statistics

We had confirmation yesterday that departure cards are to be scrapped. This was flagged by the Prime Minister a few months ago, and I wrote about the issue here.   Since then it appears that there has been no proper public consultative process. As I noted in March I’m sure airlines and airport operators hate the cards.  There … Read More

What is 5G? The next generation of wireless, explained - Guest Work

Guest Author • May 21, 2018 •

• 5g,
• Data,
• technology,
• wireless

Jan Rabaey, University of California, Berkeley Every decade or so, the wireless industry rolls out a new cellular communications standard that can transmit more data more quickly. Already under development is the next round, called “5G” because it’s the fifth major generation of these standards for encoding and transmitting data over radio waves. The … Read More

Publication Bias - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • May 03, 2018 •

• Canterbury,
• Data,
• economics,
• publication bias

We’ve known about the problems of publication bias at least since 1992. If it’s easier to get statistically significant results published than insignificant results, then there are whole literatures that become untrustworthy. Andrea Menclova at Canterbury is doing something about it. This has been a while in the making – we were talking about it when I was still at … Read More

Small size simply isn’t the issue … - The Dismal Science

Michael Reddell • Apr 12, 2018 •

• Australia,
• capita,
• country,
• Data,
• economic performance,
• Europe,
• GDP,
• government,
• income,
• labour productivity,
• market,
• New Zealand,
• regulation,
• Tasman,
• tax

Just yesterday I wrote, in response to a comment that My point simply was that there is no obvious correlation, in the cross section, between population size and GDP per capita (or productivity). I’m not aware of any serious observer arguing otherwise At the level of very simple correlations, I’d illustrated this lack of relationship –  whether for all … Read More

Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters’ minds - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 29, 2018 •

• age,
• behavioural,
• cambridge analytica,
• class,
• Data,
• demographics,
• education,
• employment,
• engineering,
• Facebook,
• micro-targeting,
• online apps,
• opinions,
• personality tests,
• politics,
• psychographics,
• Social media,
• Twitter

Michael Wade, IMD Business School This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller: a Bond villain-style CEO, a reclusive billionaire, a naïve and conflicted whistle-blower, a hipster data scientist turned politico, an academic … Read More

Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 28, 2018 •

• Android,
• apps,
• cambridge analytica,
• Data,
• data harvesting,
• Facebook,
• google play,
• Large-scale data collection,
• privacy,
• privacy policy,
• Twitter,
• WhatsApp

Vincent Mitchell, University of Sydney; Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford, and Bernadette Kamleitner, Vienna University of Economics and Business This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In the aftermath of revelations about the alleged misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica, many social media users are … Read More

China’s quest for techno-military supremacy - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 08, 2018 •

• AI,
• artificial intelligence,
• China,
• cyber-espionage,
• Data,
• Department of Justice,
• industrial espionage,
• military power,
• quantum information sciecne,
• security,
• supercomputing,
• superweapons,
• technology,
• technology transfers,
• Western technology

Adam Ni, Australian National University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to transform China’s military into the world’s most powerful force by 2050. And he could be on track to do it. On the opening day of its National People’s Congress in Beijing yesterday, … Read More

Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you tell it not to - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 09, 2018 •

• accelerometer,
• apps,
• Data,
• data companies,
• locations,
• Mobile phones,
• monitoring,
• sensing,
• storage,
• tracking

Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their workouts – including at or near military bases and clandestine sites around the world. But this threat … Read More