60 Minutes, for instance, took a closer look this past weekend at how data brokers are tapping a growing number of sources to compile evermore specialized lists. Many of the lists, which are typically sold to marketers, cover some very private topics:
Right now, the Federal Trade Commission is conducting an investigation of nine major brokers — Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, Peekyou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future – to see how they are using consumer information.
"Welcome to the launch of the Open Bloomberg website. This site will serve as the home for Bloomberg L.P.’s open-license and open-source software, data, documentation, and announcements.
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"World Bank Open Data: free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe."
"This page contains a categorised list of links to over 300 sites providing freely available geographic datasets - all ready for loading into a Geographic Information System.
We have links to everything from arctic permafrost maps to gridded population data - simply scroll through the list, or use the dropdown menus above to jump to a specific section of interest. See the FAQ for more information on the what, who, how and why of the list."
"There are many datasets available online for free for research use. Some of them are listed below.
If you’d like to have some datasets added to the page, please feel free to send the links to me at yanchang(at)RDataMining.com. Thanks."
"AWS hosts a variety of public data sets that anyone can access for free."
"In 2011 European Commissioner Neelie Kroes put up a proposal to open up Europe’s Public Data for everyone to use. Neelie Kroes is a strong supporter of the use of public datasets and she called governments to put online datasets that were created with public money. Also the United Stated sees many chances for public data. Obama launched a big data initiative worth $ 200 million in 2012 to investigate the big data opportunities and technologies."
"The Open Data 500 is the first comprehensive study of U.S. companies that use open government data to generate new business and develop new products and services. The Open Data 500 study is funded by the Knight Foundation and conducted by the GovLab. Open data is free, public data that anyone can use to launch commercial and nonprofit ventures, do research, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems."
This post is the 8th of a continuing series of interviews with OpenStack Project Technical Leads on our Mirantis blog. Our goal is to educate the broader tech community and help people understand how they can contribute to and benefit from OpenStack. Naturally, these are the opinions of the interviewee, not of Mirantis.