Security & Privacy – Page 10

MonitorClosely.com – Digital Surveillance Solutions

August 23, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

MonitorClosely.com – Digital Surveillance Solutions.

high rated franchise by entrepenuer magazine

Balloons on border showing surveillance potential (kens5.com)
Op-Ed Contributor: Who’s Watching the N.S.A. Watchers? (nytimes.com)
Op-Ed Contributor: Who’s Watching the N.S.A. Watchers? (nytimes.com)
How-to Fool Facial Recognition Tracking Systems (alexanderhiggins.com)
Anonymous releases how-to instructions on fooling facial recognition (familysurvivalprotocol.com)
Wikileaks reveals “TrapWire,” a government spy network that uses ordinary surveillance cameras [Conspiracies] (io9.com)
Minister attacks BBC and Ofsted secrecy over use of surveillance (guardian.co.uk)
Big Brother Can Now See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi (dprogram.net)
Big Brother Can Now See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi (alexanderhiggins.com)
TrapWire: American cities under total surveillance? (emmageraln.com)

Mortgage Rates Credit Cards Refinance Home CD Rates by Bankrate.com

August 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy

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Mortgage Rates Credit Cards Refinance Home CD Rates by Bankrate.com.

best bank ratings site

What Bankrate CD Rates Won’t Tell You (ally.com)
Ask the Experts: Don’t gamble funds earmarked for mortgage (kansascity.com)
6-Month CD Rates: Highest Isn’t Always Best (ally.com)

CrashPlan: Online Data Backup – Offsite, Onsite, & Cloud – Backup Software

August 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

Online Data Backup – Offsite, Onsite, & Cloud – CrashPlan Backup Software.

[Product Review] Top Cloud Services for Online Backup (pcworld.in)
Keep Your Data Backed Up and Safe With CrashPlan+ (wired.com)
If your computer crashes, who’s got your back? (livingordersablog.com)
Amazon Announces Glacier [OStatic] (ostatic.com)

UNC Master of Industrial/Systems Engineering goes online

June 1, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

Logo for the 2011 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

UNC has put its Masters in Industrial Engineering program online, including human factors courses.

University of North Carolina Online: Master of Engineering program.

UNC system says strategic plan will help it ‘do business differently’ (newsobserver.com)
UNC system proposes $266 million in budget increases over five-year span (newsobserver.com)
UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Partners with Chinese University to Launch Dual-Degree EMBA (clearadmit.com)
New Year, New Degree: MPA@UNC Welcomes First Class (2u.com)
McCrory’s call to revamp higher education gets angry response (charlotteobserver.com)
Q&A: Talking Financial Literacy & the Student Loan Landscape with UNC’s Shirley Ort (cardhub.com)

Dropcam Echo: Home security moves to the cloud

May 23, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy

With everything moving to the cloud, it was just a matter of time until some company came along and did it for home security, a field which has long been ripe for disruption and long the terrain of obscure companies that require a mass “system” installation costing thousands of dollars, a dedicated electrician and mega monthly maintenance fees. Well, Dropcam is certainly a step in the right direction, if a bit of an over priced and under powered one…

Dropcam Echo Review & Rating

New HD WiFi Security Camera Available from Dropcam (epicagear.com)
Dropcam, San Francisco, CA. Full-time and intern (onsite only). https://www.dropcam.com/jobs (news.ycombinator.com)
The Story of Dropcam, a Little Hardware Start-Up With Its Head in the Cloud (allthingsd.com)
Dropcam Now Processing More Uploaded Video Than YouTube Says CEO Greg Duffy (techcrunch.com)
Dropcam (jaxonsmama.wordpress.com)
Home Security: How to Prevent Burglaries (everydayhealth.com)
CES Show Report: Dropcam (ilounge.com)
Dropcam’s Founders Go in Front of the Camera (live.wsj.com)
CES 2013: Watch Your Home Remotely with Dropcam (live.wsj.com)

EvoFIT: Evolutionary science and anthropometrics applied to criminal facial recognition software

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

For a long time the process of identifying suspects in criminal cases was a rather frighteningly imprecise one of line ups relying on human’s often variable ability to remember specific facial features. Now, using evolutionary and anthropometric sciences, this article shows how new software can allow identification using a gradual process of increased recognition more akin to the way we actually recognize people.

Monitor: Memory upgrade | The Economist.

Bob Samuels: Darwin’s iPhone: The Politics and Rhetoric of Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, and Online Education (huffingtonpost.com)
anarcho-queer: FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Facial… (politicalcrazyness.tumblr.com)
Japanese ‘Privacy Goggles’ Block Facial Recognition Software (businessinsider.com)
Facebook brings back facial recognition for photo tagging (ctvnews.ca)
EvoDerma Celebrates New Anti-Aging Device with Promotion (prweb.com)
Japanese scientists invent ‘privacy visor’ to fool Google’s facial recognition software (rawstory.com)
Irish privacy regulators confirm Facebook wiped facial recognition data in Europe (digitaltrends.com)

Social network analysis science detects Medicare fraud, terrorisms plots

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

Fascinating article which shows how social network analysis (SNA)science is being used in the business world including everything from finding Saddam Hussein (by mapping his chauffeurs’ habits online) to identifying healthcare fraud.

Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist.

Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending – Gartner (misco.co.uk)
UK Companies Exposed To Social Networking Risk (misco.co.uk)
The Next Step in Social Networks and Developing Your Social Capital (prweb.com)

Vivos underground shelter network

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Here’s an interesting idea: create a network of underground shelters for biodefense and survival and rent out “shares” for a 6 month stay following any disaster. The shelters are equipped with all the latest eco-tech including off the grid energy, food, hydroponics, and air, water and EMF protection. The problem is: what do you do after the 6 months are up?

Vivos

Storm shelters: underground or aboveground? (qualitysmith.com)
Underground storm shelters: prefabricated or build from scratch? (qualitysmith.com)
Prefabricated underground storm shelters: an overview of options (qualitysmith.com)

Hardened Structures: clean tech meets doomsday preppers

May 22, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Health Informatics, Metadata Masterdata, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

I am increasingly interested in the odd synergy between survivalists and clean technology/sustainability. Here is another company that builds hardened structures/bomb shelters which include biohazard, air, water filtration and electromagnetic protection.

Hardened Structures.