LUCA: Telefónica’s shady side hustle

While Tech Behemoths are under constant scrutiny for their data practices, there’s another industry which has been silently gathering gigabytes of customer behavior logs for years. Telecommunication companies, and in particular cellphone carriers, can easily monitor users’ activity 24/7 and monetize this information.

Nielsen: Big Data or Bust

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Nielsen has been a market leader in the big data an analytics space for decades. Will their enormous scale and historic dominance become a threat in the digital age?