The recent revelation that both Google and the CIA have invested in Cambridge, MA-based Recorded Future has had some in the blogosphere wondering what it means to have the firm that espouses that it wants to do no evil sitting side-by-side with the Secret Squirrels from Langley. Noel Schachtman at Wired first brought this forward [...]
In the midst of the frantic online shopping season, the Federal Trade Commission held a round table discussion on privacy and technology, according to the New York Times: “The commission has been examining whether online privacy should be regulated. The debate has grown louder as technology companies are tracking and profiling people in new ways, [...]
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google in today’s New York Times front page story on the demand for data savvy grads. “And I’m not kidding.” Demand for quants is growing, as we in analytics have known for some time. [...]
