Admiral to price car insurance based on Facebook posts | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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Ian Forrester on 03 Nov 16"Insurer's algorithm analyses social media usage to identify safe drivers in unprecedented use of customer data"
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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."
Pardon Snowden on Periscope: "#AskSnowden Q&A hosted by @Jack" - 0 views
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology.
Edward Snowden says "the central problem of the future" is control of user data | TechC... - 0 views
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology. During the Q&A (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a "quantified world" - and more opportunities for government surveillance.
The coming automatic, freaky, contextual world and why we're writing a book about it - ... - 0 views
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A new world is coming. It's scary. Freaky. Over the freaky line, if you will. But it is coming. Investors like Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen are investing in it. Companies from Google to startups you've never heard of, like Wovyn or Highlight, are building it. With more than a couple of new ones already on the way that you'll hear about over the next six months.
Amazon Echos activated by TV comment - BBC News - 0 views
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An on-air comment by a US TV presenter activated Amazon Echo gadgets in viewers' homes across San Diego.
Google faulted for racial bias in image search results for black teenagers - The Washin... - 0 views
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If you searched for "three white teenagers" on Google Images earlier this month, the result spat up shiny, happy people in droves - an R.E.M. song in JPG format. The images, mostly stock photos, displayed young Caucasian men and women laughing, holding sports equipment or caught whimsically mid-selfie. If you searched for "three black teenagers," the algorithm offered an array of mug shots.
Machine Bias: There's Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And... - 0 views
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Algorithms used in American criminal justice is found to be biased against blacks
Dropbox's Infinite feature needs deeper access to your computer - 0 views
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"Dropbox is "proposing to copy the keys to your house, move in and live with you.""
Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go's CEO - 0 views
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Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.
Connected Toys Are Raising Complicated New Privacy Questions - 0 views
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"Toys and other devices are collecting loads of data from children. What could go wrong?"
Is your connected car spying on you? - BBC News - 0 views
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Modern cars are morphing into mobile data centres - connected, clever and packed full of sensors. But are they also becoming spies in our drives?
BBC - Autos - How connected car tech is eroding personal privacy - 0 views
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Your car is watching you - tracking your driving style, your whereabouts and even your favourite songs. Can it be trusted?
Who owns a connected car's data? - 0 views
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With momentum behind the connected car gathering across the globe, we're looking at one of the most discussed topics : the data generated by connected cars, and more specifically who owns it.
Lip-Reading Computers Could Spell the End of Passwords as We Know Them - 0 views
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"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."
House of Commons - Responsible Use of Data - Science and Technology Committee - 0 views
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House of Commons report on data ethics in 2014
mjg59 | A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform - 0 views
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Ikea recently launched their Trådfri smart lighting platform in the US. The idea of Ikea plus internet security together at last seems like a pretty terrible one, but having taken a look it's surprisingly competent. Hardware-wise, the device is pretty minimal
Black Hat USA 2013 | Home Invasion - 0 views
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A growing trend in electronics is to have them integrate with your home network in order to provide potentially useful features like automatic updates or to extend the usefulness of existing technologies such as door locks you can open and close from anywhere in the world.
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