How Data Secrecy and Privatization Are Gutting American Democracy Victoria Baranetsky explains how the privatization of government functions and the rising value of data are eroding public access, accountability, and democratic control.

Data privatization: just more theft, grift. Can't pay? Too bad, just die then. Must suck being poor. I'm sure there's a charity that can help.

"The driving force behind this secrecy is the soaring value of data."

#ClimateCrisis #DataCrisis #DemocracyCrisis

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UK agency reckons it's statistics will be more accurate if it doesn't publish them The Office for National Statistics has just proved to us all that it isn’t the national home of logic.

ONS’s “recovery plan” is to publish less so it can be “more accurate”. That’s not recovery — it’s retreat.
#ONS #DataCrisis #Accountability #UKPolitics #Transparency
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🚨REMINDER: Join us for a conversation on the federal #datacrisis on July 30 at 10am PST/ 1 pm ET

We’ll explore how dismantling federal data systems are reshaping #healthpolicy, obscuring inequities, & limiting accountability.

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Join us for a critical conversation on the federal #datacrisis. You'll hear from Jarvis T. Chen, Sc.D., Social Epidemiologist at
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Solving the data crisis in generative AI: Tackling the LLM brain drain Today’s generative AI models rely on training data of an almost unimaginable scale and terabytes of text sourced from the internet.

Generative AI models face a data crisis as they rely on immense amounts of internet-sourced training data. Researchers are tackling the challenge of data scarcity to prevent an LLM brain drain. #AI #DataCrisis www.developer-tech.com/news/solving-data-crisis...