Personalization: The power of a weary smile
Personalization has conquered the market by employing a few basic psychological mechanisms married with technological capabilities. Although people grow hypersensitive about protecting their privacy, they then turn around and readily share their digital data...
Is this the time to change the systems that underpin society?
Be the change that you wish to see in the world
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Firstly, I want to thank the The5CsofBusiness, who inspired me to write this article on creating a better world by providing thought-provoking...
COVID-19 Pandemic and Surveillance Program
The epitome of the Modern-Day Corporate Trojan Horse
Coronavirus pandemic has put significant stress on the world economy, public safety, as well as individual sanity. The chaos and uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 are not...
Internet of Things and Clusit Report (part II)
There are basically five sectors that will benefit most, in terms of competitiveness, from IoT technology:
- Industrial IoT (manufacturing, with predictive technologies to improve production; agriculture; mining; energy and smart grid; smart cities);
- Commercial...
On Privacy by Design
We are living in an era dominated by technological advances and digital innovation. With respect to data, these advances have paved way for the immense potential of using centralized databases and other related infrastructures...
Internet of Things and Clusit Report (part I)
The Clusit, Security Community, has published a report on the "state of the art" of the IoT phenomenon, Internet of Things, which is quite interesting.
As noted in the introduction, this phenomenon has become very...
What is Data Management?
In recent years, everyone talks about Big Data. We are always connected, so it is no mystery that the amount of data that is generated daily is scary. Throughout these years, a large number...
How to Counter Data Breaches – Everything About Protecting Your Data
As access to the internet has become a lot easier over the years, we have likewise witnessed an increase in data breaches. From the government and private firms down to individuals, pretty much everyone...
AI’s Role and Reputation in Post-Corona Society
All things pass, including corona. But not before shaping our future and accelerating trends that were already under way. Corona has forced us to undertake unprecedented social experiments - from super surveillance over new...
Privacy Guidelines, about app development
A fine of two hundred thousand euros that the Norwegian Privacy Authority, the DPA, has imposed on a local reality, for having developed an app, regardless of the paradigms to protect the privacy and...
Human and artificial intelligence in capitalism
The surprising benefit of becoming old is in finding out that issues that intrigue and often scare younger generations are not unique at all. They are modern variants of previous experiences. In the 1960s,...
Three Amazing Ways Technology Can Diagnose Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Virus or Virion as biologists know it is only about 200 nanometers in diameter and it is spreading across the globe like wildfire.
But how will you know when you get the Coronavirus...
America Under Fire — US Gov. Solarium Cybersecurity Report Sounds The General Alarm
A bi-partisan report sends a dire warning to be heeded by all Americans. The US is under sustained cyber-assault. Time to unite behind a common strategy.
"Our national security is now inexorably linked to cybersecurity"
-...
How Hedge Funds Are Profiting From Your Data
The Full Extent of How Your Personal Data is Being (Mis)used
You are going to the supermarket for groceries; on your shopping list, you have fruits, chocolate, and paper towels. While this is a simple...
The Ethics Of Using AI In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being applied to any industry that manages a large amount of data, and in an increasingly interconnected digital society that includes pretty much everyone.
Healthcare is certainly one, and there have...
Patient Data & Privacy: An Update
Medical entities are tasked with handling a patient’s diagnosis and subsequent treatment with the utmost sensitivity and confidentiality. Complying with current healthcare regulations is crucial to maintain a patient’s trust and protect the healthcare...
Questions and strategic objectives of the IoT
The phenomenon of the Internet of Things is in full expansion, both for the multiplication of digital devices on the market and for their objective functionality and usefulness at the service of innovative and...
On Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance Capitalism
Intro: From Super-Elixer to Dangerous Dark Art
Big Tech, which is always now: AI-fueled Big Tech, has made shopping, searching, connecting to friends on your preferred platforms astonishingly easy. Which is why the masses, including...
Sparks Interview – Dimension: Data Belongs to the People
X-Order is an investment and research organization dedicated to the study of value capture in open finance. We strive to be a bridge between new finance and interdisciplinary fields with relation to science and...
One Metro NY: A Privacy Disaster, or Convenience Win?
It seems like every morning brings new headlines that herald the end of our digital privacy as we know it. These stories spark outcry, worry, and -- counterintuitively -- no small amount of apathy.
The...