Big data and privacy rights have always been in conflict, with the growth in data collection, this conflict will be central to our relationship as individuals with employers, commercial and governmental organizations, and maybe even each other.
Add in a little artificial intelligence to create predictive models, and soon those organizations will know exactly how we’ll act before we do.
What a world that will be….
So, as part of Apple’s product announcements today, they also teamed up with the band U2 to give away their new album to 500 million iTunes users. In terms of marketing, it’s an interesting ploy. Why charge for the music at all, why not give it away and make your money as a musician from…
I didn’t even know there was a National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but thanks to a few tweets, I learned that there is a such a thing, and there’s even a nice little website full of tips and helpful information about good cybersecurity practices. https://niccs.us-cert.gov/national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019 If you head over there you can find things like this:…
It’s easy to claim text messages and other mobile communications are part of the official record, but again we see that actually preserving and collecting them, isn’t always so simply. “North Carolina law is clear: Text messages exchanged by government workers are public records. But Mecklenburg County doesn’t retain texts from county cellphones and officials’…
I am so sick of these stories – “Compared to the amount of wages being paid to an employee over a course of a year, it is very small,” Challenger told the Post. “It’s not going to show up in any type of macroeconomic data.” Then why do the story? Well one, because any major…
There’s a bunch of interesting stuff in the article about using apps and other tools to make sure you are communicating with remote workers. That is one of the biggest challenges when you are a remote worker, staying connected to what is going on around the company. Newsletters, conference calls, intranets, etc. can make a…
I agree, I love the idea of making screening tests available, but I’m not comfortable with a marketing company that already knows so much about us through our search and browsing habits being able to put that together with the answers to the test. Here’s the thing… Depression screening tests — like the PHQ-9 that…
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