Webcam by Branden Kramer, Stefan Haverkamp, Jan Jaworski, Tom Kropp
A short film about what is called « webcam hacking ».
Predicting A Future Free Of Dollar Bills | TechCrunch
Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and you’ve left your cards at home. No problem. You scan your right index finger; the green light flashes. Purchase approved and you leave. Easy.
We’re not there yet, but a cashless society is not as fanciful as it seems.
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software, called Riot, capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behavior by mining data from social networking websites.
Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, has acknowledged the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing “trillions of entities” from cyberspace.
Who Could Be Watching You Watching Your Figure? Your Boss
“People should be asking themselves what happens with this data, what type of inferences can be drawn from this data,” says Marc Goodman.
“If your self-tracking health device shows that you lead a sedentary lifestyle, then maybe you will pay more for insurance,” Consumers should be careful about letting any company track health data that can be used against them.
Fingertip biometrics at Disney turnstiles: the Mouse does its bit for the police state
A few years ago Disney introduced Finger Scanners in their Theme Parks. These machines are used to keep Disney World customers from sharing or re-selling their admission tickets, and are part of a general and growing police-state climate at the parks that includes routine bag-searches at each park entrance.
Digital era confounds the courts – Tal Kopan
Courts have long struggled to deal with key questions at the intersection of individual privacy and ever-advancing technology with little guidance from the Constitution or from prior cases – now judges and experts are hoping that’s about to change.
Technology law will soon be reshaped by people who don’t use email
The US supreme court doesn’t understand the internet. The future of technology and privacy law will undoubtedly be written over the next few years by nine individuals who haven’t “really ‘gotten to’ email” and find Facebook and Twitter “a challenge” .
This is what comes after search
The average person with an Android smartphone is using it to search the web, from a browser, only 1.25 times per day, says Roi Carthy, head of special projects at Tel Aviv-based mobile startup Everything.Me. That isn’t just bad news for Google, it also signals a gigantic, fundamental shift in how people interact with the web.