A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
ePrivacy
Just a few days ago, the European authorities on Google’s respect of the European Directive on Privacy published their conclusion. Basically they indicated that Google failed respecting essential principles of the Directive as limiting the usage of the personal data, minimising the requested personal data and the right to object. There is not enough information on the nature and usage of Read More …
Rumors are that European data protection commisssioners will soon act, as it seems they have determined that the new data privacy rules of Google breach our European laws. Viviane Reding, the EU Justice chief, had already mentioned her doubts in March, but there are still no details on what has been found illegal. There is still not clear what they can do to enforce Read More …
Bill Franks is Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s global alliance programs. So he knows more than a little about what’s going on in the Advanced Analytics space. He predicted on the International Institute for Analytics’ 2012 that the evolution of big data will depend on how the privacy issue would be handled. He said: Read More …
Julie Meyer, founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, was also very interesting calling the economy in our 21st. century the ‘Individualist Capitalism’. Her very clever message to all entrepreneurs was: Look at your ‘Natural Allies’, ask yourself who has interest in your success. They are going to be there and help you to be successful! Read More …
Max Schrems is a law student from Vienna. He is filing Facebook for data privacy issues. What he discovered is that not only Facebook keeps everything you typed in or uploaded to your account (they have about 1200 A4 pages of information about him, and he is only 24 years old!), but also they keep Read More …
The New York Times posted an article from John Markoff :Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’, informing that a US Intelligence Unit launched a research program to analyse public data and find predictions of social and political relevance. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet Read More …
Before, you should consider everything you wrote in Facebook as public. Now with Open Graph, the new application Mark Zuckerberg presented, everything YOU DO in Facebook will be public too. […] First, Facebook observed that asking people to manually Like, Share, or Comment on content requires an extra step that actually inhibits sharing and interaction. Read More …
Give Data as you give Blood. Global Pulse, an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, wants to analyse private data for the public good. The idea is to find patterns in data coming from private companies, and share those findings. For that, they have to find a way enterprises can deliver Read More …
Ed Borasky (@znmeb) pointed me out this article Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data leak. In it, Mark Stockley explains a scheme easy to follow to obtain private information. It is based on the errors users make when writing an email address. Security researchers have captured 120,000 emails intended for Fortune 500 companies Read More …
I don’t think I’m the only one surprised by this possibility, am I? Microsoft admitted to a ZDNet reporter that they would turn over data from European companies, in European based servers, if the data was the subject of a U.S. Patriot Act investigation or request.Now, everyone has always known that data held in U.S. Read More …