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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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We teamed up with researchers from New York University and the University of California, San Diego to find out just how effective basic account hygiene is at preventing hijacking. The year-long study, on wide-scale attacks and targeted attacks, was presented on Wednesday at a gathering of experts, policy makers, and users called The Web Conference.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: an article full of eye opening data on hacking and security (like only 750$ to hack someone's password) and links to protect your Google accounts (like adding recovery phone number). 
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Your web browsing history is the most lucrative piece of information that can be traded.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: the article is a great rundown of the many data and analytics companies and solutions that work to draw your digital self portrait. You may want to read my "Meet your digital twin" article which dives more into this topic: http://fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin/
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IoT has been and will be the talk of the town for many years to come. Learn the latest internet of things statistics, forecasts and facts for 2019. The IoT is defined by everyday objects, interconnected via the internet in order to send and receive data. The reason why we connect these objects is simple: for convenience. To help you understand this technology better in 2019, we’ve created the following list of Internet of Things statistics. Being able to arm your security system remotely, or start your washer, turn your lights on or off, or adjust the thermostat while being nowhere near them is a convenience our grandparents fantasized about. Looks like we will probably never have to worry about leaving the stove on again.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: with everything connected to the Internet, possibilities are endless, for good and bad...
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On average, in the US, using those three records, you could be correctly located in an “anonymized” database 81% of the time. Given 15 demographic attributes of someone living in Massachusetts, there’s a 99.98% chance you could find that person in any anonymized database.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: most of the population of Quebec is freaking out about the breach of 3M personal records recently. It is bad and should not go unnoticed but this study by MIT should put the breach in perspective: basically you cannot expect anonymity in this digital world. C'est la vie...
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US corporates are currently using facial recognition for everything from fast food orders to trying on makeup to issuing life insurance policies, and more.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTER: facial recognition used to be a very difficult thing to do but AI and machine learning specifically has blown this out the water opening the way for a slew of real world useful applications.
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Our tech columnist listened to four years of his Alexa archive, and discovered Amazon tracks us in more ways than we might want.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: with voice enable devices making their way into the professional settings like doctors offices or lawyers office, the impact of devices that record everything that is being said in very private settings should concern us all.
Juan Pulido's curator insight,
June 11, 2019 12:08 PM
From the beginning I knew that G is Big Brother.
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Our tech columnist offers some practical advice for fighting back against iOS apps hungry for your personal data.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: with digital transformation comes new tools and techniques that we need to learn to keep our privacy. These are 5 of them.
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From
github
The open source list of trackers that powers our browser extensions, Firefox’s private browsing mode, and other popular privacy tools can be found here along with a change log and notes.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: for geeks that want to understand which trackers exists and how they appear on mobile apps and websites. Can also be used to add them to your apps of sites, unfortunately...
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We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding. Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: I wrote about this many years back and it is worth an update given this very interesting article from WP. The growth of mobile tracking, yes even on iPhone, should be cause for concern. They also link to a solution, disconnect.me which I also covered in the past when it was launched as the collusion chrome plugin (in 2013!!!!). Moreover the very good github list of trackers is quite mindblowing. Yes it has been 6 years and the state of privacy has worsened in serious ways. Follow the links in the article for details but here are the 2 I consider most useful: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection
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From
medium
I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24-hour time span in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account. It has been four days since the incident…
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this should be essential reading for anyone to at the very least understand the potential dangers of hacking everywhere and the limits of 2 factor authentification (2FA). The recommendations are all very good and should be t least considered by everyone. Please share.
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Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: the future of privacy will be determined by Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Baidu, etc. This article and others from the NYT dossier on privacy are must read to understand what privacy will mean in the future. Certainly not the "anonymity" that you have been told since childhood...
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May 17, 2019 9:11 AM
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From
arxiv
Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death worldwide. Proper estimation of car accident risk is critical for appropriate allocation of resources in healthcare, insurance, civil engineering, and other industries. We show how images of houses are predictive of car accidents. We analyze 20,000 addresses of insurance company clients, collect a corresponding house image using Google Street View, and annotate house features such as age, type, and condition. We find that this information substantially improves car accident risk prediction compared to the state-of-the-art risk model of the insurance company and could be used for price discrimination. From this perspective, public availability of house images raises legal and social concerns, as they can be a proxy of ethnicity, religion and other sensitive data.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: more proof that digital transformation will impact our lives in potentially dramatic ways. Here the use of public street view images of houses help predict the risk of car accident by their owner should not come as a surprise as the digitization of physical world assets provides troves of previously unavailable data for companies to mine and exploit. This quote rom the paper highlights the privacy concerns we should all have from this and other digital analysis: In particular, features of the house may be a proxy of ethnicity, religion or other characteristics associated with a social status of a person which are forbidden by the law to be used for any discrimination, e.g. price discrimination in certain jurisdictions. Fast development of modern data collection and computational techniques allows for unprecedented exploitation of various data of clients being not even aware of it and development of corresponding legislation in this matter seems to be outpaced.
Hamza Yousaf's comment,
May 6, 2019 3:10 PM
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A family recently discovered a rude surprise at their Airbnb: a hidden camera disguised as a smoke detector in the living room. Here are two ways to check for cameras—in an Airbnb or elsewhere—using only an iPhone or Android phone.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this has got little to do with digital transformation and more with keeping your privacy. I assume and hope these tricks will never make you uncover a hidden cam but if they do just once, hey that's a good thing!
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May 6, 2019 3:14 PM
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May 6, 2019 3:14 PM
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From
zapier
Passwords. We all have lots of them these days. And yet we're told repeatedly to not reuse passwords and to make them strong. For most of us, that's an opposing set of directives. Unless you have some amazing memory, there's no way that we mere mortal
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: remains as true this year as it was in the past. Also read: https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-change-your-passwords/
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We’re rolling out two new features, Password Checkup and Cross Account Protection, to keep your information safe beyond Google’s sites and apps.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this simple extension will inform you when your user-password has been stolen - prompting you to change your password or take action. Must have for everyone.
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The Magicverse is an Emergent System of Systems bridging the physical with the digital, in a large scale, persistent manner within a community of people.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: want to know what augmented reality will look like in 10 or 20 years. Read this. But don't expect it to come together in the short-term, this is a *long* play
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As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them.
Farid Mheir's insight:
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!
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Last week brought an extraordinary demonstration of the dangers of operating a surveillance state — especially a shabby one, as China’s apparently is. An unsecured database exposed millions of records of Chinese Muslims being tracked via facial recognition — an ugly trifecta of prejudice, bureaucracy and incompetence.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: China is using facial recognition to monitor its citizens, this is a well documented fact. Unfortunately, not all the steps required to protect this very private information are being taken, as evidenced by this article. This raises again the importance of security to be built into our every activities, especially those that involve government or security activities.
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Whether it was here on Hackaday or elsewhere on the Internet, you’ve surely heard more than a few cautionary tales about the “Internet of Things” by now. As it turns out, giving every gadget you own access to your personal information and Internet connection can lead to unintended consequences. Who knew, right? But if you need yet another example of why trusting your home appliances with your secrets is potentially a bad idea, [Limited Results] is here to make sure you spend the next few hours doubting your recent tech purchases.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: the article explains how this team has successfully retrieved private information from discarded connected devices. It raises concerns about the disposal of connected products which, has everyone knows, will soon included pretty much everything in our homes and offices, from lightbulbs to refrigerators.
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Sources disclosed troubling privacy practices at a Ring office in Ukraine.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this article explains how and why security companies must rely on humans to teach computers how to do object recognition on security camera feeds. This may lead to privacy concerns until such time that camera video feeds are encrypted and access to the data controlled. Today, neither is done.
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From
ico
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has today (11 July) published a detailed update of her office’s investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: read this very detailed report that explains how political parties have used the Facebook data to create personalized messages and influence the election that led to the Brexit. Fascinating. Also read my posts on the data you leave behind - the data exhaust - that enables the creation of your digital twin: http://fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin
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From
ico
In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this report from the ICO data privacy organization in the UK explains in their recent report how political parties and companies use your private data to create a digital twin profile to then target you during your Internet journeys with micro-targeted messages. Also read my post on the digital twin concept: http://fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin
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From
ico
In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: data that you post on Facebook or elsewhere is aggregated by political parties and retailers and governments and others to create a virtual profile of yourself - what I call the digital twin. See my post here for more on the digital twin: http://fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin/
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From
ico
In May 2017 the Information Commissioner announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The investigation is one of the largest of its kind and is ongoing. This page will be updated as and when developments arise.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: this investigation on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica scandal shows how much data is being collected by political parties.
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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!