How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined.

The article focuses on the National Security Agency (NSA) collection of the personal information and the digital activities of millions of people. It mentions that the industry related to the collection, aggregation, and brokering personal data is referred to as database marketing. It highlights the...

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Publicado en:	New York Review of Books Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 22 - 24
Autor principal:	Marwick, Alice E.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	New York Review of Books, Inc. 1/9/2014
Materias:	United States. National Security Agency Personal information management New York Times, The (Newspaper) Acxiom Corp. Client/server computing equipment
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Sumario:	The article focuses on the National Security Agency (NSA) collection of the personal information and the digital activities of millions of people. It mentions that the industry related to the collection, aggregation, and brokering personal data is referred to as database marketing. It highlights the citation of the periodical "The New York Times" which reveals that Acxiom Corp. equipped with nearly 23,000 computer servers, process more than 50 trillion data transactions per year.