Data Sharing

As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…

For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…

The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…

In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…

Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…

As of this evening on January 31, 2025, the data portal for the…

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…

For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the…

The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…

Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…

A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…

Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…

Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…

Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…

After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…

Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…

TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…

Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…

Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…

People have been having fun with the text-to-image generators lately. Enter a description,…