Data Protection Officials Adopt Internet of Things Declaration and Big Data Resolution | Inside Privacy Home > International > Data Protection Officials Adopt Internet of Things Declaration and Big Data Resolution At the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Mauritius this week, representatives of the private sector and academia joined together to discuss the positive changes and attendant risks that the internet of things and big data may bring to daily life. Attendees memorialized the observations and conclusions of their discussions in a Declaration on the Internet of Things and a Resolution on Big Data. The documents are not, of course, binding. But, the fact that the Declaration and Resolution drew the consensus of a large gathering of international data protection regulators renders them relevant indicators of direction of data privacy policies and trends. Mauritius Declaration on the Internet of Things Mauritius Resolution on Big Data
Can you still be a stranger when everyone is wearing Google Glass? The premise of facial recognition app NameTag could have come from any number of science fiction stories. Start a conversation at a cocktail party. Look deep into the eyes of a stranger from behind a pair of glasses, and take a picture. Flicking your eyes away, check his Facebook account. His hobbies. Face recognition technology has been under development since the 1960s, and its use has expanded in the past decade, accelerated by the September 11th terrorist attacks. Google Glass face recognition offers something different. "You should be able to walk into the bar and be safe." "If you’re in a bar, you should be able to walk into the bar and be safe, not have to be immediately identified by someone who could be targeting you," says Eric Schiffer. It’s hard to say how well Anti-Glass actually works, let alone how many people could justify the cost. A promotional rendering of NameTag, running on a mobile phone. "We have a very positive mission here."
Google Explains How Not To Be A Glasshole Here are the do’s and don’ts of wearing Google Glass. Right from Google. Apparently — and I know this might be a shocker — you’re not supposed to stand in the corner of the room and record people with Google Glass . That would make you a glasshole, according to this list. At this point, Google’s challenge is not building the Glass platform, but training the general public to welcome Glass wearers into society. Google introduced Glass with a bang, but the company has not advertised the technology to the general public. As the last point in this do’s and don’ts list states: Don’t Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Glasshole”).
Match.com will find you someone who looks like your ex New Web and email address options exploded this year with 469 new top-level domain names. Next year, Google, Amazon and 10 others will bid for rights to oversee .app. In 2014, the renaming of the Net has begun in earnest. A dramatic liberalization of the Internet address system means that people can set up websites and email addresses ending in .photography, .london, .gift, .beer and .restaurant. And since they started arriving early in 2014, the virtual land grab has begun in earnest. Starting in February, 469 of these new names arrived, says the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN), a nonprofit organization that oversees the system. The addresses are called generic top-level domains (GTLDs), and their debut is part of ICANN's years-long plan to introduce new virtual real estate on the Net. With the GTLD expansion, people can identify themselves by profession -- for instance, .photography, .florist, .realtor, .pizza and .plumber. How new TLDs arrive
Dating sites 24 March 2014Last updated at 20:12 ET By Paul Rubens BBC News Would your chances of finding love online be improved if dating agencies knew far more about you? If you want to know if a prospective date is relationship material, just ask them three questions, says Christian Rudder, one of the founders of US internet dating site OKCupid. "Do you like horror movies?" "Have you ever travelled around another country alone?" Why? Mr Rudder discovered this by analysing large amounts of data on OKCupid members who ended up in relationships. Dating agencies like OKCupid, Match.com - which acquired OKCupid in 2011 for $50m (£30m) - eHarmony and many others, amass this data by making users answer questions about themselves when they sign up. Some agencies ask as many as 400 questions, and the answers are fed in to large data repositories. Applying big data analytics to these treasure troves of information is helping the agencies provide better matches for their customers. Porky pies
Les Google Glass contribueront à améliorer votre Banque Depuis Février dernier, le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa fait parler de lui. Ce n’est pas grâce à un nouveau service, mais plutôt grâce à une première technologique, puisque l’entreprise est la première banque à lancer en France une application sur Google Glass. Alors qu’aucune date de sortie française n’est prévue pour cet objet, de nombreux acteurs se laissent séduire par le concept et expérimente en secret (ou pas) leur propre application. Il est donc normal de se poser des questions sur les raisons d’un tel engouement. Nous avons eu le plaisir d’échanger avec Guillaume Campion des studios AMA, initiateur du projet pour Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. La société vient de développer la première application bancaire pour lunettes connectées en France pour le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.
Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) Abstract This specification defines the DNT request header field as an HTTP mechanism for expressing the user's preference regarding tracking, an HTML DOM property to make that expression readable by scripts, and APIs that allow scripts to register site-specific exceptions granted by the user. It also defines mechanisms for sites to communicate whether and how they honor a received preference through use of the Tk response header field and well-known resources that provide a machine-readable tracking status. Status of This Document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. This document was published by the Tracking Protection Working Group as a Last Call Working Draft on 24 April 2014. The Tracking Protection Working Group invites broad community review, especially of technical requirements and dependencies. Publication as a Last Call Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. Table of Contents 1. 2. Tracking context user party 3.
Why I want a microchip implant With a chip under your skin, you can do everything from unlocking doors to starting motorbikes, says Frank Swain, who has been trying to get his own implant. A few years ago, I perched on the edge of my bed in a tiny flat, breathing in a cloud of acetone fumes, using a scalpel to pick at the corner of an electronic travel card. More than 10 million Londoners use these Oyster cards to ride the city’s public transport network. I had decided to dissect mine. After letting the card sit in pink nail polish remover for a week, the plastic had softened enough that I could peel apart the layers. Buried inside was a tiny microchip attached to a fine copper wire: the radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. My goal was to bury the chip under my skin, so that the machine barriers at the entrance to the Underground would fly open with a wave of my hand, as if I was some kind of technological wizard. Yet if that’s true, what’s the point of implanting it?
Comment la réalité virtuelle joue avec votre cerveau Mais que se passe-t’il donc dans notre cerveau quand nous enfilons un casque de réalité virtuelle ? Il n’aura pas fallu longtemps avant que les scientifiques du monde entier se penchent sur cette question, dont on ne soupçonnait pas encore l’importance il y a deux ans, alors que Facebook rachetait Occulus, la startup quelque peu artisanale qui avait remis la réalité virtuelle à la mode après deux décennie d’indifférence générale. Jamais on n’avait soupçonné des effets aussi imprévisibles. Bien entendu, il y a tout d’abord les sensations de nausée et de vertige qui viennent très rapidement. On ne va pas s’étonner d’éprouver un sentiment de vertige dans une simulation de montagnes russe ou d’ailes volantes, mais l’expérience génère des difficultés auxquelles les éditeurs de programmes virtuels ne s’attendaient pas, et pour lesquelles ils trouvent peu à peu des solutions. Car quand vous enfilez un casque, c’est un peu comme si vous coupiez une grande partie de vos sens. virtuelle ». Dr.
Do Not Track - Universal Web Tracking Opt Out Computers, Privacy & Data Protection • International Conference Les Google Glass : une révolution technologique ? Les Google Glass : une révolution technologique ? Depuis une quinzaine d’années, nous avons pu constater une très grande évolution technologique dans le monde qui nous entoure. L’apparition d’internet dans les années 1990, a été le point de départ de nombreuses innovations. Selon une enquête réalisée par Médiamétrie en Février 2013 , les français comptent en moyenne 6,3 écrans par foyer. Selon Nokia, un individu regarderait son Smartphone environ 150 fois par jour soit une fois toutes les 6 minutes et 30 secondes (en heures d’éveil) . Le projet de l’entreprise américaine Google entre dans l’optique du projet « wearable computing ». Les lunettes Google sortent donc dans la continuité de ce projet. Le projet « Google Glass » a été dévoilé au grand public en juin 2012, par Sergey Brin (co-fondateur de Google), lors du Google I/O (une conférence annuelle depuis 2008 organisée par Google). Le grand public n’a pas encore la possibilité de se procurer ces lunettes. II. 1. 2. B. 1. 2. 3. III.
Digital Due Process :: About the Issue In-Depth: Digital health APIs every health startup should know By Jonah Comstock One conversation topic that never seems far away at digital health industry events is the idea of data silos. Consumer health and fitness apps are letting people collect more health data about themselves than ever before. And increasingly connected electronic health records create a wealth of electronic data about patients. The real potential for that data, many people believe, will come when it can be combined with other data and integrated into other apps and platforms, rather than being locked away wherever it was originally collected. This is increasingly being done through application programming interfaces, or APIs, which are offered by consumer devices like Fitbit, Withings, and Jawbone, but also electronic health records like drchrono, Allscripts, and Practice Fusion. A recent history of health APIs Aetna’s CarePass began as a data sharing initiative, but evolved to be more of a consumer health dashboard that brings different apps together.