Historically black colleges are using big data to achieve equity, reports Street Insider. 

Today, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Excelencia in Education announced the successful conclusion of Leveraging Big Data to Achieve Equity, an initiative designed to enhance research capabilities at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Commerce Department investigating whether big data is a risk to marginalized groups, reports Gizmodo.

The Commerce Department announced Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into how widespread data collection and corporate surveillance pose an outsized risk to marginalized groups.

According to Tech Explorer, more thought needs to be given to the carbon footprint of big data. 

As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost behind some of our major breakthrough