Researchers are working on tools to help protect big data and make it more useful, reports Tech Explore.

Patterns and anomalies in big data can help businesses target likely customers, reveal fraud or even predict drug interactions. 

Legal scholars are debating if big data has a place in language usage databases, reports Slate. 

The precision and promise of a data-driven society has stumbled these past years, serving up some disturbing—even damning—results: facial recognition software that can’t recognize Black faces, human resource software that rejects women’s job applications, talking computers that spit racist vitriol.

Could small data be the future of big data, reports CMS Wire. 

According to Bryan Philips Cupertino, Calif.-based In Motion head of marketing, small data is the opposite of big data.