Privacy – Insight Sciences

Google glass: high tech, low cool

March 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management

If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole
Adrian Chen, gawker.com

Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has developed a brilliantly concise definition of an asshole: “A person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms.” He was inspired by the assholes who talk in Amtrak’s quiet car, but thi…

RT @core77: A rather vitriolic argument against Google Glass – http://flip.it/o3t9Z http://flip.it/7NPfP

No, You Can’t Borrow My Google Glass (wearablecomputingreview.com)
LED light let Google glasses get rid of “invasion of privacy” suspect (lsdfloodlightblog.wordpress.com)
Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says (venturebeat.com)
Google Glass- Will it last? (rheasil.wordpress.com)

Quantified Self: New Personal Informatics Community

February 9, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Avionics and Informatics — Avionics and Informatics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Check this out.

Quantified Self | Self Knowledge Through Numbers.

National Informatics Center of India Hacked by Code Injector and Yash (news.softpedia.com)
Using Education Informatics to Improve Library Services to Doctoral Students: An Embedded Approach by Lynette Ralph (bluesyemre.com)
Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics expert says (medicalxpress.com)
Health Informatics Scotland 2013 – CFP Closes 15 May (imianews.wordpress.com)
Nursing Informatics 2.0: It’s All About the Data (himss.org)
Professor uses evolution, informatics to uncover secrets of the genome (phys.org)
BioInformatics LLC Webcast – The Life Science Product Manger’s Toolkit (prweb.com)
Laura Toogood, Digitalis Reputation, speaks at Conference of Social Informatics (prweb.com)

Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world

August 25, 2007 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world.

Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking out for you. Founded in 1990, the organization is devoted to defending the civil rights of citizens as they pertain to technology.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Tackles News Nazi (blogs.lawyers.com)
Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
Search Incident to Arrest | Electronic Frontier Foundation (powersthatbeat.wordpress.com)
8-2-2012 | EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | When The Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back? (goodjohnjr.wordpress.com)
Documents Raise Further Questions About Domestic Drone Use (thenewamerican.com)
Craigslist backs off on exclusive rights to user posts (bulletfame.wordpress.com)
California passes location privacy bill (americablog.com)
Ever Wonder Why You’re Allowed To Say Whatever You Want On The Internet? (upworthy.com)
The Oatmeal v. FunnyJunk, Part VI: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Steps In (popehat.com)
Online Privacy Offenders List: Who’s Got Your Back? (beanstalk-inc.com)