Link: EU to vote to suspend U.S. data sharing agreements, passenger records amid NSA spying scandal | ZDNet But it is now time to address key issues on the equal rights of EU and U.S. citizens, and effective judicial redress,” Reding said. “I can not
Link: Global Surveillance: The Public Must Fight for its Right to Privacy – SPIEGEL ONLINE Would the public agree to the total video surveillance of their private living space because it could possibly also help in the pursuit of terrorists? Would we be satisfied with
Link: Skinner Marketing: We’re the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward – Atlantic Mobile Skinner’s critics were prescient. They were right about control but wrong about the controllers. Our Internet handlers, not government, are using operant conditioning to modify our behavior today. June 11,
Link: ‘All you can fly’ for one flat monthly fee Wade Eyerly, CEO of Surf Air, says the airline industry is “desperate for disruption.” As he put it to NPR: “Airlines are literally the only industry that ranked below cable companies for what people think
Link: Google+ isn’t a social network; it’s The Matrix (Made me think) That’s where the “Matrix” part come in. Next time you’re searching for something, or looking on a map, or searching on YouTube, you’ll see what Google has decided are the “most relevant” results
Link: The Data Made Me Do It – nice MIT piece There is so much more data out there that you can afford to tailor it to the individual,” says Patrick Wolfe, a statistician who studies social networks at University College, London. “Statistically, strength comes
Link: What Google’s Move Against Spotify Could Mean for Music – Businessweek Of course, the music industry has a long tradition of separating a song’s profit from its creators. Still, wrote Krukowski, “the ways in which musicians are screwed have changed qualitatively, from individualized swindles
Link: Getting to the Heart of Money (via Huffpo) For Savitz, the work “comes from the heart and then through the head.” In addition, it is rooted in the practice of Tikkun Olam — the Jewish teaching that each individual must do her or his
Link: Google Now, Anticipatory Systems, and the Future of Big Data | MIT If the last century was marked by the ability to observe the interactions of physical matter—think of technologies like x-ray and radar—this century, he says, is going to be defined by the
Link: China’s internet: A giant cage (via The Economist) The fastest growth in internet use is in China’s poorer, more rural provinces, partly because of a surge in users connecting via mobile devices, which now outnumber those connecting from computers. The internet is no longer
