Bring your own device to work – but don't be surprised if your company erases all of your photos.

By Fred Trotter Who owns a patient's health information? ·The patient to whom it refers? ·The health provider that created it? ·The IT specialist who has the greatest control over it? The notion of ownership is inadequate for health information. For instance, no one has an absolute right to...

"You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can't have both."

The analysis of giant data sets promises unique business insights, but much manual effort is still required to prepare the information for parsing.

The Leek group guide to data sharing . Contribute to jtleek/datasharing development by creating an account on GitHub.

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ProPublica's News App and Data Style Guides. Contribute to propublica/guides development by creating an account on GitHub.

School of Data is re-publishing Noah Veltman’s Learning Lunches, a series of tutorials that demystify technical subjects relevant to the data journalism newsroom. This first Learning Lunch is…

Research collaboration now involves significant online communication. But sending files back and forth between collaborators creates redundancy of effort, causes unnecessary delays and, many times,…

If you are using file-sharing systems like Dropbox and Box without proper care and attention, there is a risk that you could be unwittingly leaking your most private, personal information to others.

Vulnerability that may also affect Box sent shared documents to Google AdWords.

1.     Introduction The Ontario gas plant cancellation records deletion saga has occupied a considerable amount of column inches and radio and TV time in the province itself, in Canada, and beyond …

Hundreds of new pieces of scientific research are published every month, in fields from physics to biology. While the studies themselves are assiduously archived by publishers, the underlying data researchers analyze to come to their published conclusions can be another story. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that the data that forms the backbone of those studies becomes less and less accessible to researchers over the years. That lack of archiving, says University of British Columbia zoologist Tim Vines, represents a missed opportunity for the scientific community as a whole.