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Digital Democracy: What the World’s First Big Data Project Tells Us About the Future of Identity

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York City

VIEW FULL PROGRAM REGISTER HERE Imagine a centralized database replete with your personal information that links together your and your family’s vital health, education, and social welfare records. Now imagine the database includes an entire country’s population. Fifty years ago this year, Denmark launched the world’s first nationalized big data project. The country’s Civil Personal Registration (CPR) system assigns every resident…