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Tesla and GM have both issued fire-related recalls, but Tesla’s fix doesn’t require owners to bring their cars in. 
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Look at the diagram and read the post then follow the last link.
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If you are keen to see which topics dominated the zeitgeist, which topics managed to escape the headlines despite being eminently profound and which topics we believe will be biting us soon, then join us. Give us an hour, we will give you 2013.
Farid Mheir's insight:
The webcast is very interesting although the resulting slide deck is cryptic. It provides very useful link list at the end for anyone looking to followup on the infoSec 2013 year in review. Pretty scary if you ask me, the final word goes to Dan Geer saying "We are expanding the society-wide attack surface faster than we are expanding our (protection)"
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Hosted images mean better privacy, faster load times, and less competition for Google. Unless you click on a link, marketers will have no idea the e-mail has been seen. While this means improved privacy from e-mail marketers, Google will now be digging deeper than ever into your e-mails and literally modifying the contents. There's also a bonus side effect for Google: e-mail marketing is advertising. Google exists because of advertising dollars, but they don't do e-mail marketing. They've just made a competitive form of advertising much less appealing and informative to advertisers. No doubt Google hopes this move pushes marketers to spend less on e-mail and more on Adsense.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great short piece, must read for any marketing professional. This technology from may have a strong impact on Google's top line because so much email marketing relies on images, often small invisible ones, only present in emails to identify who reads what.
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More people are letting app makers access their Google accounts — MyPermissions expanded to provide instant notifications when a new app asks for data. MyPermissions, a site that offers a handy dashboard of all the apps that are burrowing into your social media accounts, expanded the features it offers on Tuesday to alert users when an app asks for data from Gmail, Google Calendar and a suite of other Google services.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I just learned about this website. I like it because it surfaces information that is available but may be buried a little too deep into the settings and account management pages of our favorite tools. I like it because it simplifies my life by surfacing the information from multiple sources in a single location. Similar to this one Erase Yourself From the Internet With JustDelete.me via @mashable http://sco.lt/7NpszR Finally it is a reminder that the web interconnects our different profiles and the tools we use. This is great (because it allows me to remember fewer passwords) and provides tremendous value by connecting different apps together. However, we may loose a bit of privacy as we do this. Just have to remember that.
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Washington Post report (based on Snowden leaks) reveals a possible 27 TB database.
Farid Mheir's insight:
If you carry a cell phone, then you are being tracked. Along the same lines: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say via @washingtonpost http://sco.lt/5z0Es5 Astonishing Graphic Shows What You Can Learn From 6 Months Of Someone's Phone Metadata http://sco.lt/7shPsH
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The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. Via AnalyticsInnovations
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Another great talk about ways in which personal sensitive information can be extracted from a simple picture of your face, using public data on Facebook and elsewhere. Also read: Why privacy matters- why it is Paramount even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide" via @TED http://sco.lt/8uDaLJ
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Here is a quick guide for marketing departments, techies or individuals to assist in burying negative search results on Google. Do keep in mind that the effectiveness of these actions will be determined by 1. the effort you are able to put into it and 2. The SEO and value of the site hosting the negative content.
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Part of the new reality of the digital life, is how to manage the good and the bad. Here a very practical (if not easy) approach.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
September 23, 2013 10:14 AM
Simple approach to manage online reputation.
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
January 28, 2017 4:48 PM
If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.
On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.
On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
September 14, 2013 12:02 PM
I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
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A new site called JustDelete.me makes vanishing from the web much, much easier. Created by U.K.-based developer Robb Lewis, JustDelete.me is a directory of urls that highlights links to pages you may want to remove yourself from, so you don't have to jump through hoops to do so. This includes sites like Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This is just a list of links but still worth the effort to have a single location with all the links. Would be useful to automate the work though.
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Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior, and more.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This article makes me think of the collusion website that shows all your online activities based on the ads you view in web pages. I could see a future where google analytics not only shows your online website activities but your physical stores as well.
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"You will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life."
Farid Mheir's insight:
Truly insightful for anyone that thinks privacy remains in this digital age of ours. Must follow the link to the ZEIT online recreation of the digital journey. It will open your eyes as to how much data breadcrums we leave behind with just carrying our cell phones with us. When crossed with additional information including twitter feeds, facebook postings, google searches and other digital activities, our life is fully documented. Those that fear lifelogging should fear no more as they are already doing it, albeit unvoluntarilly. That being said, this may have tons of useful information for businesses but I fail to see any CIO or IT team yet tapping into this trove of data that could be leverage to improve distribution routes or manage employees better.
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We are being too quick to condemn groundbreaking technology that we don't understand and haven't yet experienced
Farid Mheir's insight:
This is nothing new. From the PBS article: The appearance of Eastman's cameras was so sudden and so pervasive that the reaction in some quarters was fear. A figure called the "camera fiend" began to appear at beach resorts, prowling the premises until he could catch female bathers unawares. One resort felt the trend so heavily that it posted a notice: "PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THEIR KODAKS ON THE BEACH."
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A lot of people are freaked out by the idea that the NSA has for years been collecting data from ordinary Americans' email accounts. Nobody likes the idea of the feds combing through their email. But experts know that it's not the content of individual emails that is the most useful thing to authorities. Rather, it's the metadata. Metadata is, literally, "information about the information." Email metadata provides a much broader view of patterns between users, and who is communicating with who, than the text inside any individual email would. If you want to identify terrorist networks, the metadata is what you really want, not access to the inside of a few suspects' accounts. (Although that might come later, of course.) MIT has been working on a project called "Immersion" to let you do exactly that with your own email, so that you can see who your closest "collaborators" actually are (and not the ones you'd like to think they are). You sign up at this web site, and let the software arrange your email history into a visual network of the people you communicate with.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Follw the link to MIT immersion and explore your own network. Very interesting to see it mapped out. Compare it to your LinkedIn network visual map for example, and now you have
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The Associated Press has published a detailed report about how the NSA's PRISM program — established to acquire data from tech giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — is a small part of a massive domestic dragnet run by...
Farid Mheir's insight:
Go read the report as well as it is well done
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In generation two, when you've got better battery life and apps that do better face recognition—maybe we're crying wolf a little early to a certain extent—but [what happens when] you get to competing products?” Adam said. “The idea that you'll have recognition of objects and infrared tags so it will always know what you're looking at—that kind of thing, it will be gathering information. It's more the face recognition stuff that changes society. You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again. "It destroys having multiple identities, and I find that quite a scary concept."
Farid Mheir's insight:
Google glass + facial recognition will have a profound impact on the way people will interact with strangers in a business setting. Facial recognition will certainly be built within the devices early in their life, which will give access to information on a previously never seen scale. In a recent article in The Economist, a third of a random set of 93 Carnegie Mellon students were recognized using facial recognition software and facebook profile photos. But the thing is, I never remember names or exactly where I've met people previously in a business context. Being able to have their name and other information popup discretly in my google glasses as I pass them by in the hallways has a definite appeal. And I suppose I am not very different than other colleagues of mine. This thing will sell.
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Benefits of having an Internet connected device - here a car - is that it can be remotely updated to fix issues or tune performance. Convenience and fast improvements.
Remember that this means it can also be remotely monitored, both for good and bad reasons, which may also raise security and privacy concerns.