Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. From its very first announcement, the Social Science One initiative, ...

Over the past decade and a half, Facebook and its social brethren have rushed to connect the world, rushed to commercialize our private data and now are rushing to make our most sensitive information ...

Hi everyone, and welcome to the third edition of Plaintext. I hope that this newsletter has become one more good reason to look forward to Friday. (I now look forward to Friday because it means the ...

Back in April, Facebook announced it would be working with a group of academics to establish an independent research commission to look into issues of social and political significance using the ...