"Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), which states that an organization cannot make a person’s consent to their data being collected (aside from collection necessary to providing the service) a condition of the product or service being delivered."Those who provide us with services want to have the ability to use our personal information to send us targeted ads. Is the tradeoff worth it?
"Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages," Erick Schonfeld wrote.
"Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. "I guess this year that my blog assignment is suddenly out of date.
For all that he sees the technology’s possibilities, Mr Gelernter has a deep dislike for the way it would interpose itself between the user and his world, including the other people in it. “Developing and refining my own first reactions to my world is too important for me and my children to allow smart glasses to mix in and muddy the waters.” He fears that people surreptitiously using Glass as a teleprompter, perhaps to seem more knowledgeable, could put at “risk the very frankness and honesty of human communications”.
According to documents filed in court, "Lush brought trademark infringement proceedings against Amazon on the basis that when the term 'Lush' was searched for on Amazon's website, the results returned were for goods which, although they featured the word 'lush' in a number of contexts, were not in fact made by Lush. Amazon had also bid on the Google AdWord 'Lush Bath Products' but did not, in fact, sell any Lush products."
"Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels. It's a kind of "dark" Google, looking for the servers, webcams, printers, routers and all the other stuff that is connected to and makes up the Internet. (Shodan's site was slow to load Monday following the publication of this story.)"
"For BYOE, the most important aspects of IT infrastructure are middle components…the commodities that bridge users, their devices, and their consumer-level applications to the institution’s data, services, systems, and enterprise-level applications."'via Blog this'
─ From "Key Findings: Technology Infrastructure," p. 24"
"The quantified self movement – the idea that tracking metrics about yourself can lead to self-improvement – appears to be gathering steam. With products such as the FitBit One, Jawbone Up and Nike+ FuelBand boasting impressive sales numbers (the FuelBand reportedly sold out within four hours of its launch), it seems that self-tracking is finding traction and on the way to becoming an ubiquitous feature of daily life."
"For the first time, an entire generation has grown up watching content on their own terms. This generation is defined by the Internet, mobile, and social - consuming content when and where they want. Nielsen calls this group Generation C "
"They don't like to fight, that's the problem. They are ripe for ridiculing because they are ridiculous in many cases, and the only reason they are advancing is because they plug in the conceptual and theoretical holes in their theories with buzzwords that have no meaning – "openness" or "the sharing economy" – what on earth is the sharing economy?"
"WHY pay through the nose for something when you can rent it more cheaply from a stranger online? That is the principle behind a range of online services that enable people to share cars, accommodation, bicycles, household appliances and other items, connecting owners of underused assets with others willing to pay to use them. "
"But that “Yes Ma'am” does something else: It makes the Manning prosecution a clear and present danger to journalism in the national security arena. The guilty plea Manning offered could subject him to twenty years in prison—more than enough to deter future whistleblowers."