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Text vs. phone data: Which is more valuable to the government?

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Queena Kim
Jun 7, 2013 Government tracking of Verizon telephone records raises the question of just how valuable phone information really is. Would it be more useful to track text message records?

Businesses like Verizon know more about you than you think

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Kai Ryssdal
Jun 6, 2013 The NSA order for Verizon's customer data highlights how much the private sector knows about their customers, and the restrictions on how they use it.

How is the government going to find anything in the Verizon phone data?

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Mark Garrison
Jun 6, 2013 Verizon is reportedly handing the National Security Agency data on every customer's calls. So how does the government go about finding needles on the digital haystack?

A health datapalooza: Washington and private health care's quest to mine health data

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Dan Gorenstein
Jun 3, 2013 For two days, nearly 2,000 data geeks, entrepreneurs, federal bureaucrats and medical folks will descend on Washington, D.C., hoping to help solve the nation’s health care crisis through algorithms and spreadsheets.

In Kenya, increasing interest in data mining

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Julia Simon
Feb 27, 2013 The growth of Kenya's increasingly-affluent middle class has brought a consumer explosion. Now there's mounting international interest in mining that data to improve businesses' profitability.

Your usual extra pillow, Ma’am? British Airways mines passenger data

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Stacey Vanek Smith
Jul 10, 2012 British Airways is getting some flak from privacy watchdogs about its new Know Me program. The company will create a little database about business class and first class passengers, including photos from Google images and information gathered during previous flights -- things like the seat or drink you prefer or if you like an extra blanket.