WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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What Does Big Tech Know About You? Basically Everything - an #infographic that should help you visualize what data is captured by the main platforms #privacy 

What Does Big Tech Know About You? Basically Everything - an #infographic that should help you visualize what data is captured by the main platforms #privacy  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

This infographic examines the privacy policies of Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft.

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WHY IT MATTERS: a very interesting visualization of the data captured by the main platforms. Usually I am not a big fan of infographics but this one is different as it conveys true information. The article has a. longer form version of this.

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More reasons to enable #2FA 2 factor authentication, never reuse #password & register to @HaveIbeenPwned

More reasons to enable #2FA 2 factor authentication, never reuse #password & register to @HaveIbeenPwned | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions of the
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Pretty much your whole life is online and digitize today. Your only protection from crooks is strong passwords that you never reuse. This article provides in depth discussion on the millions of passwords that are being sold for few dollars on the dark web. It should help you understand why this is important and what to do to be more secure.

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Strava 170M rides&runs #Heatmap shows most popular #bike & #run trails of 2015 with #BigData #GPS #crowdsourcing

Strava 170M rides&runs #Heatmap shows most popular #bike & #run trails of 2015 with #BigData #GPS #crowdsourcing | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
100 million rides and runs, 220 billion data points visualizing the best roads and trails worldwide.
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Big brother is watching and when it does you can gain tremendous insights into the behaviour of humans. I zoomed in on Montreal and the diagram is very clear about which run trails are most popular on the Mount Royal. On the dark side, of course, this means Strava performs some high level surveillance on us as we share our bike and run rides with their software.

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Taking this beyond just being really cool, into value creating is the next challenge. Great #dataviz work!
 
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How #Palantir could help power #Trump's #extremeVetting of immigrants & what US gov knows about you 

How #Palantir could help power #Trump's #extremeVetting of immigrants & what US gov knows about you  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Training materials obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show Palantir plays a role in a far-reaching customs system
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Just follow the link to the 2012 report and find out what it means to cross reference different digital databases.

 

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Our lives are digital and we leave digital exhaust behind us everywhere we go. This paper shows what the US government uses to put together a composite picture of your digital twin. For now, they plan to use this for border crossing but in the future - 10 or 20 years down the road - what will this info be used for? Also, knowing that military and very advanced technology always makes it into the corporate world, how will this be used by corporations? 

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