WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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Take this test: 9 data points is all you need to determine who you are going to vote in the next election- Imagine what you can do when you have 1000s as do Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.? via @Radi...

Take this test: 9 data points is all you need to determine who you are going to vote in the next election- Imagine what you can do when you have 1000s as do Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.? via @Radi... | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

À quel point l’âge, le revenu, le genre ou la religion influencent les chances de voter pour un parti? Nous avons puisé dans les réponses de 387 671 utilisateurs de la Boussole électorale pour le déterminer.

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WHY IT MATTERS: the power of big data is all here in this test. Enter your age, gender and 7 other facts about you and they will determine with high confidence what party you will vote for in the upcoming Canadian election. What's the trick? The data from an online survey of 300,000 Canadians. So now imagine the kind of targetting Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon can do and you'll realize why they are so valuable and dangerous. Amazing!

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R U ready to share purchase & fitness data to have #MachineLearning Predict Heart Disease & Diabetes?

R U ready to share purchase & fitness data to have #MachineLearning Predict Heart Disease & Diabetes? | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In an ongoing effort with Boston-area hospitals, including the Boston Medical Center and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we found that we could predict hospitalizations due to these two chronic diseases about a year in advance with an accuracy rate of as much as 82%. This will give care providers the chance to intervene much earlier and head off hospitalizations.

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WHY IT MATTERS: would you allow an invasion of your privacy to improve your life expectancy? I assume most of us would say YES if assured that the information would remain secure and private. What technologies need to be put in place? Do we need government regulations to protect everyone equally? These are the real questions behind advances such as this one. Moreover are there solutions using blockchain technology to allow for this to become possible?

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DeepMind is building a blockchain-style system to track healthcare records to bring back #privacy

DeepMind is building a blockchain-style system to track healthcare records to bring back #privacy | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence outfit, DeepMind, plans to build a blockchain-style system that will carefully track how every shred of patient data is used. The company, which is rapidly expanding its health-care initiatives, has announced that it will build a tool that it calls Verifiable Data Audit during the course of this year. The idea: allow hospitals, and potentially even patients, to see exactly who is using health-care records, and for what purpose. By logging how every piece of patient data is used, the company hopes to leave behind an indelible audit trail.

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

For everyone concerned about privacy in the digital world, the mega digital record would provide visibility into what is currently a completely opaque process. But far more reaching is the possibility to extend this audit trail to all our personal data. 

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Onfido: startup that provides #Identity #Verification and Background Checks

Onfido: startup that provides #Identity #Verification and Background Checks | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Onfido delivers next-generation background checks, helping the world’s most innovative businesses verify anyone, anywhere.
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AI and Big Data are being applied to identity verification by a startup that has received 25M in funding and is poaching employees from Google.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

AI and other techniques will provide enhance capabilities to deter theft and privacy violations. They will become essential tools in digital transformation of businesses. For example, UBER is using Onfido to verify that people are who they claim they are, thus making their service better able to curb credit card theft, and protect drivers by ensuring their passengers can be tracked is they behave inappropriately. 

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