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The Internet in Real-Time How Quickly Data is Generated

The spread of new animation techniques – like motion capture, which involves tracking the movement of objects and people to create more life-like characters – will also inevitably contribute to the data avalanche. Meanwhile, Lucasfilm has announced that the next generation of Star Wars films will use 48 frames a second rather than 24, signalling a new era for the film industry.

Peart wrote the lyrics in 1981, and appears to correctly predict the inventions of Google Earth and Street View (“the eyes”). This will become even more prescient in the next decade or two, as the products continue their inevitable evolution toward watching our every move in real time. (Initially for consumer data-tracking purposes, but later co-opted by law enforcement.)

StickR TrackR can easily attach to keys through its included key loop or can be stuck to almost anything with included double sided sticky tape.

Réseaux sociaux, données personnelles, algorithmes complexes : la révolution numérique bouscule les banques. Leurs bases de données en savent toujours plus sur vous. Au point que, demain, votre crédit sera peut-être recalé par un ordinateur.

The company previously allowed third-party firms such as Gnip, Datasift and Dataminr to buy access to the tweets and then re-sell that data to corporate clients.

Instant Peeping is a project that explores behaviour patterns through data analysis among Instagram users. With the rise of social media and mobile location services, Instant Peeping acts as a realtime live experiment to generate greater insight into the what, where and when of posting habits.

En février 2013, Natalia Radzina, rédactrice en chef de Charter97, un site d’information bélarusse régulièrement censuré pour ses positions critiques vis-à-vis du pouvoir, assistait à la conférence sur Internet et la liberté de la presse organisée par l’OSCE à Vienne. Elle y est tombée sur une connaissance qu’elle aurait préféré ne pas croiser : un membre du Centre analytique des opérations, l’organisme qui coordonne les opérations de surveillance et de censure sur Internet au Bélarus. Ce sont ces institutions, peu connues mais souvent au centre des systèmes de surveillance ou de censure de nombreux Etats, que Reporters sans frontières a décidé de mettre en avant dans son rapport « Ennemis d’Internet », publié à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale contre la censure, le 12 mars.

Analyze human emotions from facial expressions. More direct and automatic than by any other method. Free yourself from black boxes, electrodes, and wiring. Cost-effectively assess the emotional impact of service, product and brand messages on an unprecedented scale.

This is what I got when I combined webcam-based gesture recognition with Hakim El Hattab's reveal.js. It took me a while to write and fine tune the detection algorithms. Even then, the algorithms are only about 80% accurate. You get the gist of it though:  A flick of the hand in mid-air changes the slide. A two hand flick up or down activates the slide overview. Tips and troubleshooting in the slides below (you can still use the keyboard or reveal.js's built in controls)

Marketers are spying on Internet users -- observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com. The Journal also built an "exposure index" -- to determine the degree to which each site exposes visitors to monitoring -- by studying the tracking technologies they install and the privacy policies that guide their use.

If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here's how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.

As the internet continues to evolve, issues surrounding privacy remain a common cause for concern. There is growing anxiety among internet users of how their online activities are tracked for commercial purposes. The business model behind this is generally to aggregate a large number of users in order to sell that audience’s aggregate attention, usually in the form of advertising.  After all, “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

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Recently, I have seen a couple different JavaScript face detection demos based on the HTML5 getUserMedia API. I even made my own face detection demo based on the HTML5 video tag. Beyond human faces, we also have face detection for cats in JavaScript, nudity detection, and much more with js-objectdetect, a JavaScript library for real-time object detection.

Blinkwashing

While recently watching a talk about the new WebRTC features I was reminded of Paul Rouget’s great green screen demo and thought that this would be a cool thing to have for live video as well. Let us build a live green screen!

Why would you use the web for motion tracking? Simple. HTML5 Canvas is exciting. Javascript is (pretty) cool. Combined with a lazy afternoon, we can create an ultra simple hand motion tracking and colour recognition system.

The advertising industry suffered a setback late last night when the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium rejected the Digital Advertising Alliance's draft proposal for a universal Do Not Track standard.

Twitter Shows The Way Forward With Do Not Track Twitter today announced a new way of targeting advertisements for its users, including a partnership with three online tracking firms: media6degrees (m6d), Chango, and Adara. This new system will display ads based on your behavior and reading habits, which show up as "Promoted Tweets" or "Promoted Accounts." This is typical of the direction that major online companies are moving. But Twitter has made some praiseworthy design decisions:

In matters of Do Not Track, Twitter is doing things very, very right. The company unveiled yesterday its new ad retargeting effort, which lets it display advertisements to users based on their browsing activity. Basically, if you search for something like jeans online, you’re going to start a lot more advertisements for jeans in your Twitter feed. As Twitter argues, it’s all about seeing better, more relevant ads (and making more money from advertisers).