Resources

Report on the Internet Privacy Workshop

Report text is at: www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6462.txt The report from the event was released at the end of January 2012; the event was December 8–9, 2010: the IETF’s Internet Architecture Board (IAB) co-hosted an Internet privacy workshop with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Society (ISOC), and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). […]

Resource: Video “Network” by Michael Rigley

Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/34750078 According to Michael Rigley, the average user has 736 pieces of personal data collected every day and service providers store this information for one to five years.  The video explores the “secret life of our MMS data and the tradeoffs we inadvertently face as we choose convenience of […]

Resource: Boston Consulting Group: The Evolution of Online-User Data

by Ed Busby, Tawfik Hammoud, John Rose, and Ravi Prashad The gathering of online-user data is among the most exciting and controversial business issues of our time. It often brings up concerns about privacy, but it also presents extraordinary opportunities for personalized, one-to-one advertising.   The report highlights trends that are driving the supply side […]

Resource: WEF Report Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development

www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TC_MFS_BigDataBigImpact_Briefing_2012.pdf Given the flood of data generated by digital devices around the globe: Researchers and policymakers are beginning to realise the potential for channelling these torrents of data into actionable information that can be used to identify needs, provide services, and predict and prevent crises for the benefit of low-income populations. Concerted action is needed […]