Data-Driven Journalism Will Save Democracy and Your Identity, Too

As it currently stands, big data is one seriously wild, wild west. It’s implications are far reaching, but its implementations are quite slow. And even once the use of big data is implemented for an individual, across a company, for a country, throughout the globe — will we even know the true value of the information provided? Will we be able to tell when big data turns into useful data?
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