What is our privacy worth?
What are the best words to use when talking about data? What does ‘anonymised’ mean? Is India turning into a surveillance state? Why are some Swedish workers being implanted with microchips? What is collaborative machine learning without centralised training data? Why do brands need to fire adtech? Is the end near for the Facebook-Google duopoly? __ What is our privacy worth? Excellent opinion piece by Alexandra Samuel discussing the key issues around getting people excited a
Is it easier to hack an election than eBay?
Why should users care about protecting data from being collected and sold? Why is it vital to protect encryption? Are algorithms sprawling out of our control? How can facial recognition software stop toilet paper bandits? Is this the most magical surveillance state on Earth? -- Is it easier to hack an election than eBay? Sergei Pavlovich, one of the Russian-speaking world’s most notorious hackers, thinks so. 😳 Without explicitly commenting on the US election allegations, Pav
How will everyone win with the rise of data integration?
Can your ML system detect discrimination? Do you know how to spot visualisation lies? How was colour switching used on the Commodore 64? Stuck on a programming problem? What makes us happy at work? Incase you missed it - I was featured on BBC Radio 4's Today show on Wednesday morning discussing the future of data protection (skip to 1hr 43mins for the data segment by Matthew Price). -- How will everyone win with the rise of data integration? 🔍 Unlike a commodity, information
Have we lost control of our personal data?
Can strong consumer data protection be a disruptive innovation strategy? Why is pi so interesting? Want to teach yourself computer science? -- An academic paper has heavily criticised the data sharing deal between Google's DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust for it's lack of transparency and patient involvement. The controversial deal was signed in 2015 to develop the acute kidney injury alert app Streams. -- In subsequent sharing agreements between DeepMind and other Londo
Will new NSA data sharing rules result in more people being caught in "surveillance crossfire&q
Are you aware your medical data is being sold on (US patients)? How can re-identification be avoided? Can data science beat cancer? Should gadget fixers be being paid to identify criminal activity on customers computers? Is your personal data vulnerable from using auto-fill? Can VR be used to incite empathy? Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? In need of large realistic dummy data sets for product dev, testing or demos? How good are you at guessing the correlation
What does Amazon's plans to rev Alexa everywhere mean?
Think Facebook only collects your online information? What attributes has Facebook classified you with? Are your kids exposing their personal data online? What's going to happen to tech in 2017? Should data collected by Amazon's Alexa be able to be used as evidence in a courtroom? Still searching for the perfect cheese and wine tasting? 💜 Love DataScan? Please share: Twitter | Facebook 💚 Forwarded from a friend? Sign up here A carefully curated summary of the top data-news
Can Trump get his hands on Silicon Valley's big data?
Does your company view data privacy as a tier-1 consideration? What can data visualisation learn from punks? How does data go dark? Did you (your kids) make it on Santa's Nice List? How much self- indulgence do Millennials need to give up to get on the property ladder? What could a tech-enabled Christmas look like in 2026? Privacy Can Trump's government get its hands on Silicon Valley's big data? Brian Feldman points out that even though most of the tech giants have released
Is a shift in power over how data privacy is handled overdue?
Should online data collection be opt-in? Can Yahoo ever make a comeback from breaching one million users' data? Do you know how to tell what company has sold your data? Would you infect two friends with ransomware to free yourself? Do you need a digital detox? A carefully curated summary of the top data-news from the week: Privacy Edward Snowden stressed in an interview there needs to be a shift in power over how personal data and privacy is handled. ✅ Key points: Citizens ne
What will 2017 bring for the world of data?
How will Brexit effect data protection? Will Obama's tech legacy live on? Have charities exploited your personal data? Are your kids' internet-connected toys collecting unnecessary personal information? Have you played with Google's newly open sourced data vis tool? A carefully curated summary of the top data-news from the week: Looking forward James Kobielus, Big Data Evangelist @ IBM, lays out his big data and analytics predictions for 2017. INTRIGUING READ. Most notably: P
How can VR improve data visualisation?
Have you played with Uber's new data vis yet? Has your Google Android account been compromised? Are you in the "danger zone" from reusing your passwords? Have you heard of Amazon Athena? How is the Chinese government planning to leverage big data for a mass surveillance program? Can an implant enhance our attention, creativity and focus? What is the Internet like in North Korea? A curated summary of the top data news from the week: Data visualisation Check out deck.gl - Uber'
