So when we ask why payment systems are insecure, it’s bigger — much bigger — than a lack of security at Home Depot, or Target, or name-that-brand. It’s really about an entire system that needs to play catch-up. Because we shop across many stores, and not just one, banks and card companies have to take the lead. So far, they’ve pledged to move to chip-and-PIN cards starting next year, but Litan says that could take seven to 10 years.
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups, which they say could transform social science research.
“This is a new era,” said Jeffrey T. Hancock, a Cornell University professor of communication and information science. “I liken it a little bit to when chemistry got the microscope.”
Does the collection of data by companies threaten consumers’ civil rights?
With time, Watch Dogs proves to not criticize the mentality of those who have access to our data, but to enable, encourage, and reward that mentality. Information stops being an insightful, humanizing privilege, but something to be exploited. Your ungoverned access to people’s privacy—phones, laptops—and city infrastructure is not presented as a responsibility, but an opportunity.
The other day, while I was navigating Reddit I found an interesting post that was called The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World by the author George Dvorsky which was trying to explain the importance that algorithms have in our world today and which ones are the most important for our civilization.
Everyone in advertising is buying exhaustive records of your purchases—all your purchases—and comparing them to your viewing habits so that they know which ads you saw and whether or not they changed your behavior.
OpenPDS would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
Sexualitics tries to contribute to human sexuality understanding through a Big Data approach.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a Google Trends-like tool called Porngram that maps the evolution of keywords in the titles of 800,000 porn videos.
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