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High concentration of intrastate pipelines in Texas

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By keeping gas pipelines within the state, companies can avoid federal regulations. Tags: Bloomberg , energy , Texas This is perhaps good for profits, but it is less of a positive for consumers when the energy companies can increase rates more freely. For Bloomberg, Rachel Adams-Heard, Naureen Malik, and Jeremy C.F.

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Unregulated location data industry

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For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan discuss the non-regulation of the location data industry : Without government regulation, the current approach from Apple and Google is to play catch-up with data brokers for each new way that location data can be shared, experts said.

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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous

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There is virtually no regulation of the data brokerage circus. Tags: privacy , Wired.

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Where cancer risk is greater due to air pollution

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A quarter of the 20 hot spots with the highest levels of excess risk are in Texas, and almost all of them are in Southern states known for having weaker environmental regulations. Tags: cancer , pollution , ProPublica. They are not equally distributed across the country. Interact with the full map here.

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Data warehouse at the supermarket

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regulators and members of Congress are scrutinizing the deal, including by examining its potential to erode privacy: Kroger has carefully grown two “alternative profit business” units that monetize customer information, expected by Kroger to yield more than $1 billion in “profits opportunity.”

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Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how its data is used internally

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’ And yet, this is exactly what regulators expect us to do, increasing our risk of mistakes and misrepresentation,” the document read. Tags: facebook , Motherboard , privacy. Motherboard retyped the document from scratch to protect a source.). This problem inside Facebook is known as “data lineage.” ” Hm.

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Data-driven insight in the era PII

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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (commonly known as GDPR) came into effect on the 25th May 2018. It is important to any user or processor of personally identifiable information (PII) as this new law marks a seismic change in the way that organizations must protect consumers’ data.