The age of Big Data poses a risk to our privacy as even anonymised data can sometimes be linked to individuals. Differential privacy provides a way of protecting sensitive information even when some of it is made public.

The advent of artificial intelligence poses new threats to the privacy of our personal data.  We explore the challenges and a way to address them.

Researchers have shown that the fates of our collective memories, whether of a song, a research paper, an invention or a sports star, are all described by the same mathematical equation.

Fred Morstatter talks to us about biases in social media data and how to avoid them.

Taming big data – Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb tells us about a new institute researching the mathematics of information

Everybody's talking about Big Data. But what exactly do they mean?

Chris Budd tells us how big data can be used to model riots, analyse photos and shorten airport queues.