The law requires web services operating in Russia to store citizens’ data in local facilities. It’s supposed to protect Russians from overseas hackers, but the censorship potential is clear. Read more »
The app tells users what services like Facebook can figure out about their personality and intentions. In the future, it wants to encourage people to feed that data to advertisers for… Read more »
There’s a reason security consistently appears on IT buyers’ lists of priorities and concerns. We looked last week at some of the biggest cloud and IT disasters of 2013, and this… Read more »
Law professor and blogger Eric Goldman drops some knowledge on the ineffectiveness and, one could argue, innovation-hindering effects on these types or privacy laws. I think regulation is a good idea,… Read more »
The existing TV ecosystem rests on two revenue pillars: advertising and distribution (i.e. carriage and retransmission) fees. Cracking the incumbents hold on the system will requiring disrupting or undermining one or… Read more »
Is there a line beyond which people are no longer mere Quantified Selfers but something much more annoying? Could data really be used as “success theater” to make someone seem more… Read more »
Curious about how much of your personal financial and other data is collected by data brokers? Check out Acxiom’s Aboutthedata.com to get a glimpse. Read more »
A recent New York Times article casts some doubt on the economic impact of big data. Here’s why I think we haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to big data… Read more »
Fitness trackers and life logging apps might not add too much depth to our understanding of our daily routines, but they do provide a good judgmental eye. Who else is gonna… Read more »
Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai isn’t just logging information about his weight, sleep and activity, he’s sharing the information openly with the hope that other developers will discover interesting ways to use… Read more »