Initially, the alerts are intended to be educational.

. If pirating continues to happen through the IP address, users will receive the message again, followed by messages that ask them to confirm they have seen the alerts. The fifth and sixth alert are called mitigation alerts and will temporarily slow users' internet speeds, depending on the ISP.

It's certainly not how we should be doing copyright policy,

it's a private copyright system and it doesn't have the protections and balances that the public copyright system has.

to ensure that it fairly identifies copyright violations is a former lobbyist

McSherry said that people engaged in wholesale commercial infringement wouldn't be fazed by the system because they are familiar with ways around the system

This failed to have a significant effect on pirating, and the industry stopped suing these type of casual users several years ago.

Identifiably personal information (IPI, if you must) is any set of data which by inspection could lead to the identification of an individual from a group, with a given level of confidence in a given time

is based on solid academic work on differential privacy and security threat modelling.

could turn data science into data surveillance.

Data mining by many businesses seeks to predict trends in purchasing behaviour, monitor customer response to service delivery and assess their marketing strategy against those of their rivals.

The real power of social media mining is establishing a "pattern of life" from which anomalies might stand out

feature is intended to be helpful to users

But users could just as easily promote embarrassing status updates in jest or out of cruelty.

applies to users with fewer than 5,000 friends and subscribers

pay the $7 fee

it is beyond the experimentation phase and heading towards production

that the age of “wearable technology” is nigh

“Apple can launch a new product like no other company because it owns its own retail channel, has privileged real estate in other retailers, and has a brand that’s recognized even by two-year-olds.”

There were mobile phones with internet access, mapping software and even touchscreens before the iPhone was introduced in 2007, they just failed to capture mainstream attention.

Likewise, wearable technology and smart watches are not Apple ideas. The firm in fact already benefits from third party wearable accessories such as the Nike FuelBand and FitBit, which link to the iPhone and track exercise.

All the main technologies – screens, processors, GPS, mobile software, Bluetooth wireless networking – are already mature and in mass use. The problem is cramming them into something small enough to look stylish on a wrist

its rival is working on a computer you wear on your face. Google Glass, a project led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, suggests a near future in which reality is augmented via a pair of spectacles with all the capabilities of a smartphone.

Already in public testing, Google Glass’ tiny screen projects the web into your field of vision, while “bone conduction” headphones transmit sound directly through your skull, allowing you to hear your environment at the same time through your ears.