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Biodegradable data is starting to grow up

Monika Seyfried and Cyrus Clarke discuss their project Grow Your Own Cloud, a speculative service that helps consumers store their data – in the DNA of plants.

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Culture & Media

SuperAwesome wants to protect children’s streaming data

The kidtech start-up is launching an alternative to YouTube’s embedded video player.

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Technology

A casino where your personal data is currency

An installation at Future Fest 2018 allowed players to exchange personal data for betting chips.

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Fashion

Need to Know | 07 : 06 : 18

Moncler experiments with new product drops every month, Queen V changes the conversation around vagina hygiene, Fox TV acquires Snapchat’s dating series.

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Food & Drink

Need to Know | 05 : 06 : 18

Punchy provides alcoholic and non-alcoholic variants of rum punch, Katz’s Deli reaches those outside New York with monthly delivery, Scout FM considers users’ preferences with new podcast service.

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Marketing & Branding

How targeted advertising can survive the GDPR

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, co-founder and president of Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO that aims to protect the rights of individuals in a surveillance society, on how the GDPR will change online advertising.

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Viewpoints

Why the GDPR signals a greater battle over data

Irene Ng, chairman of the HAT Foundation Group, explores how regulations such as the GDPR are just the beginning of a new power play between consumers and service providers.