Just left the Quantified Self conference where I led a session in the last breakout on “building for a personal data ecosystem.” Since we weren’t on the official program, i was very happy to be holding something in an Infinity session. Fifteen or so …
McKinsey's Research Arm Claims Big Data Mining Will Save Us All
13 May 2011 by
Steve Lohr has a write up in today’s NYTimes: Mining of Raw Data May Bring a Surge of Innovation about McKinsey & Company's report on Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity.
I think we need to challenge ass…
The right to oblivion
12 March 2011 by
Yesterday at this NCUA ICANN meeting in SF the right to oblivion was mentioned several times. It seems to be on people’s minds as they try to figure out what privacy and data control mean to companies, to users, to privacy advocates and regulators.
Pe…
PDEC Response to the FTC Do Not Track White Paper
19 February 2011 by
Here is a link to the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium response (pdf) I submitted late last night to the FTC about their Do Not Track white paper (pdf).
I got the letter and Q&A to the FTC (33 pages!) just in the nick of time as submission "…