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Ian Forrester

'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Techn... - 0 views

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    "When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lindsey Stone on Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and her reputation. Two years on, could she get her life back?"
Ian Forrester

Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP | Society... - 0 views

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    "David Davis says police would be able to approach central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust "
Ian Forrester

NHS disregards patient requests to opt out of sharing medical records | Society | The G... - 0 views

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    " Officials now admit they shared data because otherwise it would have affected patients' treatment "
Ian Forrester

NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says | Society | theguar... - 0 views

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    "Health select committee member Sarah Wollaston queries how data was secured by PA Consulting and uploaded to servers outside UK"
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

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

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
Ian Forrester

Indoor Location Technology Uses Wi-Fi to Track Shoppers | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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    Indoor location technology brings Internet-style tracking to physical spaces.
Ian Forrester

BBC News - Dating apps found 'leaking' location data - 0 views

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    "Many mobile dating apps can be hacked to expose the exact location of users, warn security experts. "
Ian Forrester

How dating app Grindr makes it easy to stalk 5 million gay men | Ars Technica - 0 views

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    "Location sharing allows user whearabouts to be tracked around the clock."
Ian Forrester

Your refrigerator probably hasn't joined a botnet - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    A mediagenic press-release from Proofpoint, a security firm, announced that its researchers had discovered a 100,000-device-strong botnet made up of hacked "Internet of Things" appliances, such as refrigerators
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

Smart TVs, smart fridges, smart washing machines? - 0 views

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    Disaster waiting to happen | Ars Technica
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

Food labelling - 0 views

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    Inspiration for standard labelling like creative commons
Ian Forrester

Use of an augmented reality display - 0 views

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    paper on use of ar to display patients data. [Stud Health Technol Inform. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI
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