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You are the product.The InterceptStaggering Variety of Clandestine Trackers Found In Popular Android AppsYael Grauer

There seems to be an expectation in science that the people who gather a dataset should also be the ones who analyze it. But often that doesn’t make sense: what it takes to gather relevant data has little to do with what it takes to perform a reasonable analysis. Indeed, the imperatives of analysis can even impede data-gathering, if people have confused ideas of what they can and can’t do with their data. I’d like us to move to a world in which gathering and analysis of data are separated,...