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.
We are approaching the end of the year. For most of us this is the time to Last Year’s introspection and New Year’s big resolutions…(and if you don’t usually do it I recommend it to you: time flies (!) and taking the wheel of your life brings you a lovely sense of realisation 🙂 Have you Read More …
This last Tuesday, I lead the ‘Discover Big Data’ workshop at the First European Celebration of Women in Computing. There were many parallel sessions that morning and I received some questions about my presentation from the participants that couldn’t divide themselves to attend this workshop 😉 Welcome to the Big Data workshop, we need women Read More …
Due to last events in Belgium, the terrorist bomb attacks in Zaventem and Brussels, I couldn’t but remember the article from Bloomberg Businessweek talking about pre-crime: ‘China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime’. They refer us to the film Minority Report, with Tom Cruise, that takes place in a future society where three mutants foresee all Read More …
I recently got the new issue from Scientific American (October 2013), and in the front page was announced the article ‘The Data-Driven Society’ by Alex Pentland. I just had to read it 🙂 He co-leads the World Economic Forum on Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. He was talking about all the digital bread crumbs Read More …
Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena Read More …
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 …
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 …
Read Robin Cangie in her article Facebook Doesn’t Need Mind Control to Control You She compares Facebook’s new Sponsored Stories application to a panopticon, that is a circular building, originally designed for prisons, that allows outside observers to watch prisoners without their knowing. That creates a “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”, as Wikipedia puts it Read More …
Here’s an interesting bit from this article: Home Office changes mind on data interception consultation … The deadline for the consultation has now been extended to December 17th, and the meeting with civil rights groups will take place this week.The Home Office is considering giving the Interception Commissioner, who deals with cases where companies have Read More …