The XXI Century Gold Rush — Social Networks and Big Data

... information exchange is fantastic. The underside of this process is that more governments are taking measures to temporarily shut down the domestic Internet or limit access in order to achieve various political aims (also trying to control the use of social networks by the population). Recent research has shown that these measures lead to economic losses within the national economic framework. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E Maria Gurova: Cradle of Surveillance Not by the way someone is using social media, ...