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Ian Forrester

Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements - curl -sSL https://instal... - 0 views

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    "Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware No client-side software required Install by running one command: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash"
Ian Forrester

Single points of failure | Jon Udell - 0 views

  • Now I turn on a Logitech Squeezebox to do the same thing. But this morning it failed.
  • 1. The box itself (hardware, firmware) 2. My Internet router 3. My cable modem 4. My ISP 5. The Internet fabric between my ISP and Logitech’s ISP 6. The Squeezebox service itself
  • The Squeezebox platform is officially discontinued, but Logitech hasn’t told current owners what they should expect from now on.
Ian Forrester

Do You Know What Your Mobile Is Doing Behind Your Back? | Londonist - 0 views

  • The Secret Life Of Your Mobile Phone is at Etcetera Theatre Camden, 4-7 December, 9pm. Tickets are £8, available from the website.
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    "Secret life of your mobile phone" play discussed on the Londonist
Ian Forrester

Matt Webb on Twitter: "Sending me an email saying what TV I've watched this past year i... - 0 views

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    Virgin media sends Matt Webb a summary of what he's watched. Creepy!
Ian Forrester

Schemer - The beginning of everything worth doing! - 0 views

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    "Schemer - The beginning of everything worth doing! "
Ian Forrester

https://dtinit.org/ - 0 views

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    "The Data Transfer Initiative invests dedicated engineering and product resources to the design and implementation of data transfer tools. These contributions will continue to be maintained in an open source GitHub repository to encourage broader adoption of and contributions to the code base"
Ian Forrester

Programmatic Beyond Advertising: A Not-So-Distant Future | CMF Trends - 0 views

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    Could "programmatic" technology used in online advertising also be used to automate and personalize the distribution of cultural and editorial content?
Ian Forrester

Brain's activity map makes stable 'fingerprint' - 0 views

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    "Neuroscientists have found that they can identify individuals based on a coarse map of which brain regions "pair up" in scans of brain activity. The map is stable enough that the researchers could pick one person's pattern from a set of 126, by matching it to a scan taken on another day. "
Ian Forrester

Facebook's New Patent, 'Digital Redlining,' and Financial Justice - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "A recent patent from the company judges your own creditworthiness by your friends."
Ian Forrester

Facebook blocks Admiral's car insurance discount plan - BBC News - 0 views

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    Facebook has blocked plans by an insurer to view young drivers' profiles to help set car insurance premiums.
Ian Forrester

Admiral to price car insurance based on Facebook posts | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "Insurer's algorithm analyses social media usage to identify safe drivers in unprecedented use of customer data"
Ian Forrester

Nintendo's Charming 'Miitomo' Could Be the Most Brilliant Data Mining App Ever | Mother... - 0 views

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    It sounds innocent enough. But users are growing suspicious of the app's whimsical, canned questions, many of which read like a marketing survey.
Ian Forrester

WebUSB API - 0 views

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    Describes an API for direct access to Universal Serial Bus devices from web pages.
Ian Forrester

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You | WIRED - 0 views

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    "When a rogue researcher last week released 70,000 OkCupid profiles, complete with usernames and sexual preferences, people were pissed. When Facebook researchers manipulated stories appearing in Newsfeeds for a mood contagion study in 2014, people were really pissed. OkCupid filed a copyright claim to take down the dataset; the journal that published Facebook's study issued an "expression of concern." Outrage has a way of shaping ethical boundaries. We learn from mistakes."
Ian Forrester

CDT and Fitbit Report on Best Privacy Practices for R&D in the Wearables Industry | Cen... - 1 views

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    Wearable sensor technology has the potential to transform health care and our understanding of our own bodies and habits. The investigation and testing of these sensors in the commercial sector offer an unprecedented opportunity to leverage biometric data, both to improve individual health through the development of better products and to advance the public good through research. However, research with wearable sensor data must be done in a manner that is respectful of ethical considerations and consumer privacy
Ian Forrester

WhatsApp to share user data with Facebook for ad targeting - here's how to opt out | Te... - 0 views

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    "Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent company - including for ad-targeting purposes on the latter service."
Ian Forrester

WhatsApp-Facebook data-sharing deal probed by UK privacy watchdog | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "Just one day after WhatsApp revealed a sea-change in its attitude to user data, by detailing plans to share the mobile numbers and last seen status of its users with parent company Facebook for ad-targeting and marketing purposes, the UK's data protection watchdog has fired a warning shot across Zuckerberg's bows by announcing it intends to investigate the arrangement"
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