Identity has changed. The post-World War II generation was concerned about being identified as a number. The sight of emaciated humans with identifying numbers tattooed on their inner forearms made this very real and very scary. By the late 1960’s the TV show The Prisoner portrayed the hero objecting on a regular basis: “I am … Continue reading
this ebook is free to view or download. A humanistic look at Big Data, aggregation and how a data-centric view of the world is changing our relationship to our identities and the groups we belong to. click below (left to look/right to receive) to view or download: Big Data- slipping its moorings Continue reading
Inference is the core technique for determining what happened for which you have little or no data. Lewis Mumford was dissatisfied with the stone tools that had been found all over the world and dated back hundreds of thousands of years. Not because he did not consider them telling of the state of technology employed … Continue reading
Did the EU Court of Justice’s compromise on the right to be forgotten get its inspiration from a US law’s attempt at solving a logistical problem? I’ve written about the bias of aggregation towards anonymity in Anti-Viral, published by SecurityCurrent. In that piece, I show how the EU’s decision reinforces the idea that aggregation, the … Continue reading
The EU’s efforts to define a right to be forgotten and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision about how privacy is protected on cell phones go hand in hand. They remind us that the medium is still the message and that there is a new role in discussing data access and control. Why connect these … Continue reading
Socrates happens on his old friend, Dedoméno. He makes a new friend and has a conversation. DEDOMÉNO: Socrates, it is a pleasure to see you on line SOCRATES: Dedoméno, it is a surprise to see you. I thought you were away. DEDOMÉNO: Just so, Socrates. But I am visiting my friend Clapper. SOCRATES: Clapper? The famous … Continue reading
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