Simply no legitimate reason in a democracy "for people to have secret bank accounts or own property secretly or own companies secretly," Anne Applebaum tells Jon Stewart on The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast: theproblem.com/podcast/anne-a… #darkdata

Our data-rich world is increasingly populated by individuals whose needs we can't infer, explains Dark Data Project's Timothy Quinn at IAC - Information Architecture Conference #IAC25 on 1-Apr-2023 in New Orleans theiaconference.com/iac23-program/… #IAC #darkdata

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Happy birthday, Albert Einstein. #PhotosWithAlbert

2B people have no birth certificates & 30M deaths go unrecorded every year, resulting in (a) lack of access to services, (b) uninformed health policies, (c) identity fraud, writes Jeneen Interlandi in The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/03/29/mag… #darkdata

If you missed our IAC talk earlier this month about non-user experiences, you can still read or download the white paper at darkdataproject.org/nux #darkdata #ux #uxdesign #ia

Today in our #IAC23 retro posts we are highlighting #IAC speaker Timothy Quinn founder of Dark Data Project 🎉 👉 Listen to his IAC23 talk: ow.ly/gbja50OXHf4 📖 Dive deeper here: ow.ly/Oh5m50OXHf6 🌐 Learn more about Dark Data Project: ow.ly/9krk50OXHf5

Worried about sensitive data stewardship? Download our latest one-pager, "Security Essentials for Humanitarian Organizations" darkdataproject.org/publications

Since 1990, FEMA "no longer publishes countrywide assessments of risks from nuclear attacks," thereby underappreciating alarming impacts of fallout, writes Sébastien Philippe in Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/who-wo… #darkdata

Uncounted vertically migrating fish may play "an important role in stabilizing the climate" writes Moira Donovan in WIRED wired.com/story/all-the-… #darkdata

"Data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking," which can obscure illegal extraction, writes Victor Maus & Tim Werner in nature nature.com/articles/d4158… #darkdata

Most data breaches don't result from zero-days or Ocean's Eleven-style heists

"A common strategy to neutralize a social problem is to make it difficult to know about," write Marianne Cooper & @DrMaximVoronov in Scientific American. "If we don’t monitor or mention it, then things can feel back to normal." scientificamerican.com/article/weve-h… #darkdata

As reported in Nature, no bird flu outbreak has been found on Missouri dairy farms, arguably because the state "does not require farmers to test their cows" unmc.edu/healthsecurity… #darkdata

"We cannot calculate with missing data, just as we can't divide by zero,” says Stef van Buuren and reported by Matthew von Hippel in Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/when-data-is-m… #darkdata

"Hidden debts accumulate when economies are booming, and are more likely to be exposed when growth slows," reports The Economist, citing World Bank (David Mihalyi), Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social (Philipp Nickol) and Notre Dame Economics (Cesar Sosa Padilla) economist.com/finance-and-ec… #darkdata

Data on items transiting US ports is ostensibly public, but "it's not free, and it's unusable in the format that it comes in," according to Michael Kanko at ImportGenius, interviewed by Amanda Aronczyk on NPR's Planet Money npr.org/2024/10/11/121… #darkdata

Current climate data "don’t reflect recent changes such as newer pollution controls, volcanic eruptions or even the effects of Covid," writes Gavin Schmidt and Zeke Hausfather in The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opi… #darkdata

"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature, citing Nicola Segata of CIBIO - UniTrento nature.com/articles/d4158… #darkdata

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