Proponents of synthetic data see it as the future, saying it will help government have more access to valuable data while at the same time protecting individual privacy.

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The corporate world is flooded with data on consumers. Much of this data is tied to you personally – how much you spend, what ...

But one subject still feels slippery: personal privacy. Everyone knows it matters, but why? And what would life look like if ...

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