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May 2014

Confessions of a Data Broker

by gregg
Acxiom's CEO Scott Howe explains how self-regulation can work By Katy Bachman

Watch Dogs - Digital Shadow

by gregg
a promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. I maintain fairly restrictive privacy settings, and most of the page didn't predict much, but the income prediction was a $20,000 range almost perfectly centered on my actual salary. If that weren't enough, it also combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa ("obsessions"), which interact more with you ("stalkers"), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely ("liabilities").

How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data

by gregg
For the past nine months, Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, tried to hide from the Internet the fact that she's pregnant — and it wasn't easy.

Phones are giving away your location, regardless of your privacy settings - Quartz

by gregg
Sensors in your phone that collect seemingly harmless data could leave you vulnerable to cyber attack, according to new research. And saying no to apps that ask for your location is not enough to prevent the tracking of your device.

April 2014

The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information - CBS News

by gregg
Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight

When the restaurant you Googled Googles you back | Ars Technica

by gregg & 1 other (via)
t's not the thought that counts; unexpected in-person customization feels icky.

FiveThirtyEight

by gregg
Silver s’était fait connaître au milieu des années 2000 pour ses prédictions de carrière de joueurs de Baseball américain en se basant sur les statistiques. Mais ses coups les plus spectaculaires ont été ses prévisions d’une précision presque absolue lors des élections présidentielles 2008 et 2012 aux États-Unis, en s’appuyant sur les sondages et toutes autres données disponibles. (En 2012, il prédit correctement les résultats de l’élection dans tous les états américains)

March 2014

Instant Peeping

by gregg
Instant Peeping is a project that explores behaviour patterns through data analysis among Instagram users.

AboutTheData.com

by gregg & 1 other
AboutTheData.com allows you to view, edit, and remove information about yourself from Acxiom’s marketing database.

February 2014

Eterni.me - Become Virtually Immortal

by gregg
Eterni.me collects almost everything that you create during your lifetime, and processes this huge amount of information using complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Then it generates a virtual YOU, an avatar that emulates your personality and can interact with, and offer information and advice to your family and friends after you pass away.

January 2014

A Death in the Database : The New Yorker

by gregg
Then, unexpectedly, Ashley died. Less than a year later, last Thursday, her father received a promotional mailer from OfficeMax addressed to “Mike Seay/Daughter Killed in Car Crash/Or Current Business.”

November 2013

Structure your investigation and mine your data - Detective.io

by gregg & 2 others
Structure your investigation & mine your data Throw away your Moleskine! Detective.io is a platform that hosts your investigation and lets you mine it with powerful queries.

commodify.us

by gregg & 1 other
They make money from your data. Why shouldn't you? Get Started

Clojure + Datomic + Storm = Zolodeck

by ghis (via)
Amit Rathore describes the architecture of Zolodeck, a virtual relationship manager built on Clojure, Datomic, and Storm.

October 2013

WebRTC Copy

by srcmax & 1 other
WebRTC enables Real Time Communication across the internet directly between web browsers. This website allows files of any size and messages to be transmitted securely over this protocol.

September 2013

Internubel

by groucho
Une nouvelle banque de données informe sur la composition des produits alimentaires - Santé - Actualité - LeVif.be http://bit.ly/19kQOcV

August 2013

July 2013

Generatedata.com

by dzc & 2 others
C'est un outil gratuit et open source écrit en JavaScript, PHP et MySQL qui vous permet de générer rapidement de gros volumes de données personnalisées dans une variété de formats pour une utilisation dans les logiciels de tests, bases de données ...

June 2013