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Ian Forrester

Karen | Blast Theory - 0 views

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    Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.
Ian Forrester

FIDO Alliance - 0 views

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    Simpler, Stronger, Authentication. The Mission of the FIDO Alliance is to change the nature of online authentication
Ian Forrester

BBC - iWonder - When did the state start to spy on us? - 0 views

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    "The extraordinary growth of state surveillance of the UK population has been fuelled by political and technological developments in recent decades. But in the name of national security, the state has been eavesdropping on us for far longer than that."
Ian Forrester

Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked - Krebs on Security - 0 views

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    Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company's user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair."
Ian Forrester

Not OK, Google: Chromium voice extension pulled after spying concerns | Ars Technica - 0 views

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    "Google agreed that a closed source module wasn't a good fit for an open source browser."
Ian Forrester

Russian billboard advertising contraband hides when it recognises cops | Naked Security - 0 views

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    Of course there are a gazillion ways this kind of thing will go wrong. I'm more interested in the general phenomenon of smart devices identifying us automatically and without our knowledge.
Ian Forrester

When Big Data becomes Big Brother - BBC News - 0 views

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    "We live in the social mobile era, where we all collect and share vast amounts of data about ourselves and others. "
Ian Forrester

Who Owns the Web of Data? | Jeni Tennison - 0 views

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    "At the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa on 28 May, the Open Data Institute published a short discussion paper to stimulate a public debate about data infrastructure."
Ian Forrester

I'm Terrified of My New Smart TV - 0 views

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    Why I'm Scared to Turn This Thing On - And You'd Be, Too | Brennan Center for Justice
Ian Forrester

Of Course 23andMe's Plan Has Been to Sell Your Genetic Data All Along - 0 views

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    23andMe announced what Forbes reports is only the first of ten deals with big biotech companies: Genentech will pay up to $60 million for access to 23andMe's data to study Parkinson's. You think 23andMe was about selling fun DNA spit tests for $99 a pop? Nope, it's been about selling your data all along.
Ian Forrester

Big Mother Is Watching You: The Track-Everything Revolution Is Here Whether You Want It... - 0 views

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    "If you keep your fitness-related New Year's resolutions in 2015, it'll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut. But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies? "
Ian Forrester

Ai Weiwei is Living in Our Future - Medium - 0 views

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    Living under permanent surveillance and what that means for our freedom
Ian Forrester

If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here's How to Set It Straight - WSJ - 0 views

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    The original My Tivo Thinks I'm gay recommendation dilemma
Ian Forrester

Here comes the 'Internet of Self' | Computerworld - 0 views

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    When the quantified self movement collides with the Internet of Things, the world becomes an extension of you.
Ian Forrester

The future of wearable technology is not wearables - it's analysing the data | Technolo... - 0 views

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    Wearable technology's evolution is not about the gadget on the wrist but what is done with the data they collect, says computational biologist
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