“Devices are cooling down as tech’s elite moves on to less tangible signifiers of wealth and luxury. As the majority of the U.S. arrives at a smartphone-saturated future, Silicon Valley is neck-deep in a backlash against it. Perhaps more than anyone else, those who work in technology are doing their best to back off in …
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Fortune asked 25 of the sharpest minds to weigh in on the epic, disruptive, thrilling, terrifying, and fascinating ideas that will mold the next decade. The future is now. #8. The 31st human right should be to own your medical data. There is a fundamental lack of trust between consumers and corporations. The relationship is …
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Attorney General (AG) Xavier Becerra clarified at a news conference in Sacramento that he fully expects businesses to be compliant with the CCPA immediately starting January 1st, 2020, and that his office will enforce violations that occurred before July 1st. Read the full post on the DataWallet Medium site California’s AG will prosecute companies that …
“From the individual perspective, GDPR tells me that I’m now ‘in control of my data’. Well, I must have missed that bit. Or does someone really expect me to go to my 300 or so direct suppliers, read their policies, see my data, change or delete it where I need to, and pretend to not …
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“Some of the UK’s most popular health websites are sharing people’s sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses, drug names and menstrual and fertility information — with dozens of companies around the world, ranging from ad-targeting giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Oracle, to lesser-known data-brokers and adtech firms like Scorecard and OpenX. Using …
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Most people would agree that we are on the verge of a significant transformation in the global economy, driven by advances in data and analytics. [..] I believe, though, that as we move into an Open Data world, combined with much better data and analytics capabilities, humans will be able to step back from many …
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“The personal data operator plays the role of an intermediary between data sources and data using services within a trust framework or ecosystem with fiduciary responsibility for the individual. It should create trust and open up a user driven market where individuals are both protected and empowered to use the data that organisations hold about …
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This is a detailed and impressive post outlining the many different components required to create a data eco-system that genuinely enables individuals All of the components are listed out and described. Iain has been thinking about this for a long time, so this is a well considered architecture. The My Data Architecture by Iain Henderson …
You’ve probably encountered a pair of shoes that won’t stop following you around the internet, appearing in advertisements on different sites for weeks. While many websites offer a way to opt out of targeted advertisements or unwanted emails, we discovered in our recent research that exercising privacy choices isn’t always easy. But that helped us …