TikTok US venture to collect precise user location data

Details on the expanded access to location information was published in a new privacy policy for the popular social media app ...
IEEE

Energy-Constrained Multidimensional Optimization for UAV-Aided Secure Data Collection With Cooperative Jamming

Abstract: Due to the agile mobility and line-of-sight transmission capabilities, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising technology for facilitating data collection from sensor ...
Yale Insights

How Innovations in Understanding Everyday Data Can Power More Effective Aid

For a project in Bangladesh, Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak and his team used machine-learning models applied to mobile phone records ...
Devdiscourse

Hidden barriers to AI success in healthcare and social care

Data inconsistencies arise when formats, units, or collection practices change over time, undermining model reliability. Poor ...
BMJ Open

Pregnancy Risk, Infant Surveillance, and Measurement Alliance (PRISMA) Maternal and Newborn Health Study: protocol for a multisite, prospective, open cohort study of pregnancy ...

Introduction Maternal and child mortality has markedly decreased worldwide over the past few decades. Despite this success, the decline remains unequal across countries and is overall insufficient to ...
CNET

Prices Set by Algorithms: New Yorkers Now See Warnings About Stores Using Personal Data to Set Costs

Online shoppers in New York are now seeing a new warning on product pages thanks to consumer protection legislation that took effect in early November. Particularly noticeable during Black Friday ...
Reuters

Google says it has developed landmark quantum computing algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...
Wired

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to ...
Forbes

TikTok Deal Would Let U.S. Owners Control Algorithm And Data

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. A preliminary TikTok deal proposes U.S. investors own 80% of its ...
Android

Oracle to Retrain TikTok's Algorithm with U.S. User Data

A deal to prevent a US TikTok ban is now in place. The app’s algorithm will be copied, overseen by Oracle, and retrained using only American user data. This new, separate system addresses national ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
IEEE

Numerical Data Collection under Input-Discriminative Local Differential Privacy

Abstract: Input-discriminative local differential privacy (ID-LDP) protects user data with a different range of values, which improves the utility of the estimated data compared to traditional LDP.