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Critical and insightful reading list about IOT

"We've discussed the stupidity of privacy policies many times in the past. Honestly, it's an idea that serves no useful purpose, yet most sites are required to have one, and if you don't, people get all upset. But no one reads them, and most people incorrectly assume that if a site has any privacy policy, they must keep data private. "

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

"Instead of requiring a typed password or a fingerprint, this security software asks the user to speak or mouth a password directly at a device's camera."

Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother's birthday is coming up, and Facebook's showing ads for her local florist. Or maybe you just made a joke aloud about wanting a Jeep, and Instagram's promoting Chrysler dealerships. Whatever the subject, you've seen ads like this. You've wondered - maybe worried - how they found their way to you.

" "I Agree" is an art installation that prints the terms of service for common apps on scrolls of colored paper, creating a bar chart of the fine print that neither you, nor anyone else in the history of the world, has ever read. "

Guard is a site that uses AI to read epically long privacy policies and then highlight any aspects of them that might be problematic.

If you want to use the trust.txt system, you do NOT have to read this Reference Document.

"Make all the articles you consume count We're restoring sanity to the world by making how you inform yourself count for something. Troll-free, bot-free, ad-free."

"As the Web Monetization ecosystem grows, an increasing number of researchers are studying, exploring, and writing about Web Monetization. Read and discover their findings on this shelf within the Web Monetization Resource Library."

Due to the difference of body shapes and motion patterns, each person can have specific influence patterns on surrounding WIFI signals while she moves indoors, generating a unique pattern on the CSI time series of the WIFI device," the team writes in its report. "FreeSense…is nonintrusive and privacy-preserving compared with existing methods [of human identification].

"SoLiD is a proposed set of conventions for building decentralized social applications on the Linked Data stack. SoLiD is modular and extensible. It relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards. SoLiD applications are somewhat like multiuser applications where instances talk to each other through a shared filesystem, and the Web is that filesystem. "

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