McKinsey's Research Arm Claims Big Data Mining Will Save Us All

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

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

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 &quot…

Speaking of Speaking.. the Personal Data Ecosystem Emerges

The last two weeks I’ve been speaking a lot. Why?

On 1/28/11 I was at She’s Geeky SF leading a session with Kaliya Hamlin, Executive Director of Personal Data Ecosystem, where about 50 women came to talk about what this emerging organization and spac…