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This is a guest post by Aaron Z. Lewis I grew up in cyber spaces where legal names were few and far between: RuneScape, AIM, Club Penguin, Neopets, and the like. But when I turned 13, Facebook open…
Listen now (17 min) | Today I want to talk about a possible emerging successor to net neutrality, which I call charisma neutrality, which I think is a plausible consequence of a very likely technological future: pervasive end-to-end encryption. (17 minutes) Now net neutrality of course, was part of a very important chapter in the history of technology. Though the principle is now pretty much down for the count, for a few decades it played a hugely important role in ensuring that the internet was born more open than closed, and more generative than sterile.
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The new data ecosystem of trust: How data trusts, collaboratives & coops can help govern data for maximum public benefit
California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Washington — last I checked, these states have introduced draft “privacy…
What story does your data tell about you?
In this post, I make a case that Sovrin not only conforms to Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of Identity, but constitutes the identity metasystem he envisioned in 2004.
It is the summer of 2023, and Rachel is broke. Sitting in a bar one evening, browsing job ads on her phone, she gets a text message. Researchers doing a study on liver function have gotten her name…
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Multi-factor biometrics and digital identity startup Global e·dentity has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for identifying people by their subcutaneous vascular…
Trades Union Congress concerned over tech being used to control and micromanage
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Face-recognition technology is the new norm. You may think, “I’ve got nothing to hide,” but we all should be concerned.
The Guardian Firewall app gives iOS users a reprieve from the scourge of online trackers.
One year after she broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Carole Cadwalladr discusses the state of play with whistleblower Christopher Wylie
個人データの活用の新しい仕組み「情報銀行」の実現に向けた実証実験を開始
Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy.
Walgreens is exploring new tech that turns your purchases, your movements, even your gaze, into data.
Attention C-Suite: If you make only one New Year’s resolution, make it this: use personal data intelligently, transparently and ethically.
B y 2020, China’s new system of social credit scoring is expected to give each citizen a trustworthiness rating based on anything from shopping habits to choice of friends. It may seem like an ideal…
Luciano Floridi has never been kind with technology. In ’95, when the web as we know it today did not exist and he was a PhD Philosophy student, he wrote things such as: «No one controls the system…
The software, developed under contract, will be given to foreign governments. It is already being tested.
Facebook’s proposed technology would analyze your #wifey tags, shared IP addresses, and photos to predict whom you live with.
“This is where there needs to be debate,” says a former analyst for one of the firms helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement gather personal data.
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