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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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In this brief, we highlight why Canada needs a digital identity system, how other countries have made progress in this area and the lessons we can learn from those experiences to build a system in Canada.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: digital identification is at the base of the digital pyramid of needs. This white papers details the requirements for a national digital identification system that includes proper government regulations. FINALLY! For more on the digital pyramid of needs:Â http://fmcs.digital/blog/pyramid-of-digital-needs/Â 
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"When you have rising monetization, rising growth and rising data collection, it drives a lot of regulatory scrutiny whether it’s related to data privacy, competition or safety in content."
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this is the annual presentation to level-set everyone on the Internet, mobile, ecommerce, cybersecurity, epayment, personalization, etc. She covers everything and shows that digital transformation is in full swing. Just WOW. Again.
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
December 19, 2018 8:15 AM
Meeker is as close to Nostradamus as we are likely to get.Â
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Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: face recognition using AI has been around for a few years. It used to require large computers in the cloud. Not anymore. This changes everything. 1) privacy: it will become more and more difficult to protect your privacy in the future. I have written about this before, specifically when the Google glasses came out 3 years ago. It is a concept that is interpreted differently in countries and cultures - such as China vs USA. 2) China: is investing heavily to win the AI war with the US. So we should expect every product - from glasses to door bells to cell phones to cars - to have face recognition built into the device in the very near future. At the CES2018 show, I saw a number of companies that offer face recognition chips ready to be embedded at low price into any consumer device. So it *will* happen. More on China in a later post... 3) protection: people will naturally want to protect themselves. We should start to see face masks that are designed to fool face recognition hardware as has been shown to be possible recently. More reading: - google glasses face recognition: http://fmcs.digital/blog/kodak-cameras-banned-in-the-1880s-over-loss-of/ - CES security cameras: http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/9ee3fba2-dd87-42c4-ae7c-b2478b752ec3%7C_0.html (in french) - fooling face recognition: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne43pz/ai-fooling-glasses-could-be-good-enough-to-trick-facial-recognition-at-airports
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This survey finds that a majority of Americans have directly experienced some form of data theft or fraud, that a sizeable share of the public thinks that their personal data have become less secure in recent years, and that many lack confidence in various institutions to keep their personal data safe from misuse. In addition, many Americans are failing to follow digital security best practices in their own personal lives, and a substantial majority expects that major cyberattacks will be a fact of life in the future.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT As I wrote recently in the "Pyramid of Digital Needs" (fmcs.digital/blog/pyramid-of-digital-needs/), security is one of the most basic needs. When we don't feel secure and private then it is difficult to enjoy the benefits of social networks and all the other tools that digital now provides. It is essential that corporations address security and privacy in a meaningful way in order for their clients, employees and partners to use their new digital tools and embrace the digital transformation that most enterprises have recently embarked on.
Also worth reading from Pew Research:
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Mozilla’s new open source initiative to document and explain what’s happening to the health of the Internet. Combining research from multiple sources, we collect data on five key topics and offer a brief overview of each.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Mozilla has always been promoting Internet security and privacy and this new report paves the way for a very interesting ongoing look at key elements of the public Internet.
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Learn phishers’ most dangerous tricks and see how you can teach your users to avoid them.What's inside?
A printable checklist of tips and best practices to share with your users to help them recognize and avoid phishing emails.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good introduction to the dangers of phishing email attacks, with good examples and humour that make it a good guide to share with employees as part of an information session of staying vigilant about those attacks.
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How the creator of the Samy worm became the friendly face of technological insecurity.
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Describes how a hacker youTube channel with 90K subscribers and 5M views describes how to hack everything from credit card readers to garage door openers.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Hacking has become a past time for many and there is an industry forming around this new trend to help users with their hacking projects and solutions. Any digital expert would be well informed to follow such hacking gurus to understand what is possible, how it is done and - possibly - how to prevent it in their strategies and roadmaps.
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Today’s more clueful cybercrooks understand that if they can identify compromised systems inside organizations that may be sought-after targets of organized cybercrime groups, those groups might be willing to pay handsomely for such ready-made access.
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Krebs explains how cybercrime organizations profit from the sale of companies they hack and gain access to usernames and systems. It also provides guidance on how to improve security in large organizations.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I find that too often we focus on individual hacks or threats but rarely consider security at a strategic level - assigning real cost to security breaches and thus looking for funding to address the biggest risks. Moreover, as is stated here, awareness training of resources may actually be a very effective - and relatively low cost? - way to improve security and protect an organization.
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Bram is a PhD student in computer science at the Expertise Centr
Farid Mheir's insight:
An 8 minute video that will make you rethink your hunt for free wifi in public spaces...
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Just how extensive are Google's tracking activities? When I started cataloging them, I was amazed. Here is a partial list of tracking methods Google is known to use. I'd wager that the list of tracking methods we don't know about is much longer.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I love Google and their products. I love how they've pushed the enveloppe to draw digital into our lives. And I also know enough about what they do with the data to be careful. This article is great because it lists some of the most common ways in which Google tracks info about you.
Today, I don't mind about this invasion of my privacy, because what they do with the data seems pretty harmless to me - even maybe can be considered a service - which is to target better ads to me.
What is really scary is not what Google does with my data: after all, they are being scrutinized by so many and their business model depends on not abusing the information they gather about us. However this is not be true for the other companies that track information about me and do not share the same prying eyes as Google does: Apple? Facebook? Mastercard and Visa? Walmart? Governments?
THAT is something to worry about...
Arnaud Dubois's curator insight,
May 2, 2016 6:03 AM
Google, or probably the biggest assembly of big data in the world
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Twenty-four hours a day, across more than sixty free product “platforms," Google is storing, indexing, and cross-referencing information about the activities of a billion people. What are the 30,000 prodigies at Google, Inc. doing with all that data?Continue Reading…
Farid Mheir's insight:
A long read from a well respected psychologist on the power that Google employees have because of the amount of data the company accumulates. Must read for anyone interested in real-world examples of things that can go wrong with Big Data and data science.
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Early this year the staff at Epicenter, a Stockholm based high-tech company, were given a choice; they could either be issued a standard employee ID card for access to the building and office equipment, or they could be injected with a tiny radio frequency identification device, placed just under the skin of their hand – otherwise known as a subcutaneous implant. Surprisingly, a number chose the chip, on the promise that with a wave of their hand they would be able to access the building, open doors, operate photocopiers and even pay for lunch in the company cafeteria. No ID cards to forget at home or passwords to remember. In fact, the Epicenter case is hardly the first experiment of its kind. Going back as far as 2004, Barcelona nightclub owner Conrad Chase offered RFID chipping to his VIP clients enabling access to special lounges and payment capability. Via André Bélanger
Farid Mheir's insight:
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever. Great insight from André!
Luigi Cappel's comment,
November 21, 2015 2:25 PM
For me it would depend on what part of the world I live in. In New Zealand I would have no problem wearing a chip that I could use for ID for building access, customs, instead of passwords or finger scanners. Being a law abiding citizen in a relatively corruption free country, I'd be more than happy, providing as per the law, I knew how any information about me was being used and could revoke access where it was abused. If I was living in other countries, which may remain nameless, I would steer well clear, because being innocent and law abiding doesn't mean that you are safe.
Farid Mheir's comment,
November 21, 2015 5:33 PM
@Russell R. Roberts, Jr. @Luigi Cappel both of you thank you for insightful comments and reshare... as always!
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
December 9, 2016 3:22 PM
I knew they did this for dogs but never thought they did it for humans. But come to think of it, makes perfect sense. Or it will become the biggest invasion of privacy ever.
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Under a cloud passport, a traveller's identity and biometrics data would be stored in a cloud, so passengers would no longer need to carry their passports and risk having them lost or stolen. DFAT says 38,718 passports were registered as lost or stolen in 2014-15, consistent with the 38,689 reported missing the previous year.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Part of a brainstorming exercise by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Not having to carry papers and documents with you is always a good idea. We do it for our personal information and contacts, our emails, calendars, documents and pictures, and soon with our money (apple pay, google wallet, etc.). Moving to the cloud for your government identification makes perfect sense as well. Security will need to be bullet proof, but given the number of stolen or lost passports (due mostly to human error I am sure), I would bet that technology would do a much better job. Concerning privacy and global surveillance, that's a different story...
Farid Mheir's comment,
November 6, 2015 6:07 PM
Yes indeed, all good points - but I don't see them as showstoppers but rather as technical constraints, that may ultimately the solution impractical until cloud access maturity is there. But I thought it is a great example of digital transformation, no? ;-)
Ms. Stephens's curator insight,
November 9, 2015 9:41 AM
This could revolutionize travel, but will your information be safe from hackers?
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How a teen hacker used social engineering to get into the email account of the CIA director.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Explains how a teenager was able to fool VErizon and AOL employees into giving him access to CIA director email account. This shows that the weak link in all of our technology remains the people. The solution thus is not more technology or information security restrictions (because everyone will bypass them anyways), but rather better education and technology that is transparent so that people don't bypass it or make insecure by their actions.
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Modifier les résultats de recherche de Google. Contrôler ses informations personnelles sur le web. Disparaître de l'internet. Après deux décennies d'indolence, des...
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How to manage your e-reputation and some methods to disappear from the web. In french.
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Praetorian tracking all IoT devices in Austin, Texas running on ZigBee protocol, similar to the Shodan scanner.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A project has been devised to map all internet of things devices in the Austin Texas area, and identify vulnerabilities. Cool demonstrations of what you can do with a drone and some technology skills. See the full map here: https://www.praetorian.com/iotmap/ WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? There will be 9B IoT devices soon and many more in the future. Great opportunities but it needs to be safe and private.
Tracy Harding's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:19 AM
You need to work on formatting of your replies. This is one giant sentence. Remember the requirements. You need a 2-3 sentence summary, at least 1 sentence of IR implications and 1 sentence about your thoughts.
Farid Mheir's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:23 AM
@Tracy Harding: not sure I understand your comment re: formatting. Can you be more specific and email me a screengrab? thank you!
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Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, will be coming to Google to talk about his new book: "Data and Goliath: The...
Farid Mheir's insight:
Bruce Schneier is a legend in the security and privacy world and he explains in a 30 minute talk (20min if you listen at 1.5x speed ;-) the content of his new book. He makes me want to read it (good job I guess) but also closes with an interesting analogy: data is the pollution of the information age. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Bruce raises the issue of privacy but also ventures into solutions, which is rare because it is a difficult subject with no straight answer. He makes the case that there is duality in producing data and analyzing it: it is both useful and dangerous. Every company is faced with the questions that Bruce raises.
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Life quantification pioneer Nicholas Felton's latest annual report is his most ambitious to date. For the last nine years, Nicholas Felton--who you may know best for inspiring the Facebook timeline or creating the life-logging app Reporter--has been recording some aspect of almost every moment of his life. And each year, he turns this data into a elegant, printed book that visualizes the year called The Feltron Report... Via Lauren Moss
Farid Mheir's insight:
The Felton report is a beautiful peeping hole into someone's life when they start to quantify themselves. Focussed on fairly benign problem space - conversations during the year - it shows what possibilities, both good and bad, lie within the quantified-self movement which is bound to explode with the availability of Apple watch and others alike. Of course it brings tremendous opportunities for monitoring someone's life in order to improve it. Whether it is by measuring exercice (as we do today with step trackers) or heart rate or glucose levels in order to improve health or medical diagnosis. In the context of business, organizations can monitor employees in order to minimize injuries or prevent illness and time loss due to sickness. There is of course the dark side, where all this data, when made available without our consent or knowledge, can be used to track us and restrict our privacy or our rights. This is already happening in the contexte of government surveillance (ie. Edward Snowden http://sco.lt/5k4B29) or internet browsing tracking (ie. data brokers http://sco.lt/79yNZh)
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WHY IT MATTERS: facial recognition has many good use cases and this article explains in detail how tracking pig faces in China is one of them!