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Ian Forrester

Security Challenges in the IP-Based IoT - 0 views

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    Security Challenges in the IP-Based Internet of Things paper
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

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

Smart Billboards Recognize Cops - Schneier on 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

Surveillance-based manipulation: How Facebook or Google could tilt elections | Ars Tech... - 0 views

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    Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us. Surveillance facilitates control.
Ian Forrester

We Experiment On Human Beings! « OkTrends - 0 views

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    OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing. Neither does any other website. It's not like people have been building these things for very long, or you can go look up a blueprint or something. Most ideas are bad. Even good ideas could be better.
Ian Forrester

TV plots altered by our individual data - our viewing future? | Reuters.com - 0 views

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    Lancaster University researchers say their 'Living Room of the Future' is not just a peek at what could await us as the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution gathers pace.
Ian Forrester

TwArχiv - 0 views

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    Twitter archives are a rich source of data for doing research into numerous things: Learning about social media and interaction networks, gaining insights into movement patterns based on geolocations and even doing sentiment analysis based on the tweets. And the best part of it: Unless you have a protected Twitter account this data is already public. So why not share it? The TwArχiv takes in your Twitter archive and generates interesting visualizations from your own tweets, including tweet volume over time and your interaction/movement patterns.
Ian Forrester

Mozilla IoT - Gateway - 0 views

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    Build your own web of things gateway
Ian Forrester

Time Well Spent - 0 views

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    Hijack Your Attention. Not just for a moment, or an hour - but every moment, of every hour. That's how the companies we worked at made billions. They win the more they keep you scrolling. They win the more they hook your kids. They win the more things interrupt you. They win when outrage keeps you hooked to the news.
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

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.
Ian Forrester

Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation - Slashdot - 0 views

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    "Amazon objects to over-broad or otherwise inappropriate demands as a matter of course," the company said in a statement. Even without Amazon's help, police may be able to crack into the Echo, according to the warrant"
Ian Forrester

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.
Ian Forrester

Databox Project - EPSRC Project on Privacy-Aware Personal Data Platform - 0 views

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    Databox project is a new £1.5M EPSRC project led by Dr. Hamed Haddadi (QMUL) in collaboration with Dr. Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge) and Professors Derek McAuley, Tom Rodden, and Andy Crabtree (University of Nottingham) who will explore the development of the Databox as means of enhancing accountability and giving individuals control over the use of their personal data.
Ian Forrester

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.""
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