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The staggering Covid-19 death toll reported worldwide has highlighted just how catastrophic the pandemic has been, but its true human cost is likely to be revealed as vastly larger when the World ...

With all of the data breaches and accusations of improper data usage in the news these days, the question of who owns data looms large. Understanding who owns which data is a complex question that can ...