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	This month: July 2012 What happens to my data? A novel approach to informing users of data processing practices Individuals and businesses increasingly use the Internet to buy products or engage in interactions with others. In doing so they invariably share (personal) data. In this paper a study was conducted to gain a better understanding of the kinds of information users would wish to receive with respect to companies’ data processing practices, and the form this information ought to take. As a result, a new approach was developed to communicate more effectively to users.

	Also this month! Political Insights: Exploring partisanship in Web search queries Political Insights is an online searchable database of politically charged queries, based on data surrounding the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Ranking queries according to partisanship makes this tool into a gauge of query partisanship. Using fresh data and tracking changes over time allows such a tool to act as a barometer of political partisanship.


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