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elizabethv
5/31/2017 5:44:45 PM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
@JohnBarnes - I never thought about it like that. But you're exactly right. Cue grimace. Some random Facebook "game" that's floating around predicted I am 23 years old and live in Hawaii. The Hawaii part sounds nice but it's off by more than 10 years. Cue grimace. It made me wonder if my posts make me sound young somehow. Maybe fairly frequent quotes by my 2 and 4 year olds brought down my average quite a bit. Hopefully whatever algorithms they use, should it come to that, will be better than the random program I came across on Facebook.
afwriter
5/31/2017 12:03:21 PM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
@Joe excellent commentary, thanks for the perspective.
Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
@afwriter: A big part of that is that the USA -- where a lot of this tech and innovation is coming from -- has never, as a country, dealt en masse with some sort of oppressive totalitarian regimen that spied on its citizens. Despite cynical commentaries on the modern era (and whether or not they are true), our nation has always been a democratic republic. Nations in Europe have much longer and much more tumultuous histories -- and there are people old enough there to remember secret police.
So whereas Americans take personal privacy for granted, European nations have seen firsthand just how important personal privacy is -- and what it can mean when personal privacy goes by the wayside.
Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
@dmendyk: Today it's basically "Don't violate my family's privacy -- unless I get paid...or I look really good in this outfit."
dmendyk
5/31/2017 9:23:12 AM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
What's funny -- not in a hahaha kind of way -- is that it wasn't too long ago (like, 10 years ago?) that local newspapers were catching parental heat for publishing names and photos of kids doing kid things like posing for group spelling-bee pictures. The fear was that predators would use this information to target the young ones. We went from that to Honey Boo-Boo pretty quickly.
afwriter
5/31/2017 12:15:34 AM
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Re: Technology
The only issue here is that one of those bugs could cripple a city. Smart cities continue to be such an interesting topic because they have so many benefits, but almost as many problems if they fall into the wrong hands.
afwriter
5/31/2017 12:11:38 AM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
We already share so much of our personal lives, and a lot of the kids these days have never lived in a time where their entire lives were laid out on social media. We are ok with our activity and locations being tracked as long as we get deals out of it. As long as we continue to use the internet privacy is a thing of the past.
afwriter
5/30/2017 11:56:11 PM
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Re: IOT threatens Smart Cities
Security is so important for the future of smart cities. It really should be the top priority and it scares me that it's not.
JohnBarnes
5/30/2017 9:59:46 PM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
ElizabethV,
To further fuel your paranoia, there do seem to be such things as unhealthy attitudes on life, i.e. patterns of communication with others that are moderately good predictors that you will be sick more often and/or age faster. And deducing such attitudes is an almost tailor-made job for predictive machine intelligence.
So your insurance rates might go up because a machine decides, based on your purchases, social media vocabulary, and choices of entertainment, that you are too grim, glum, or grumpy.
JohnBarnes
5/30/2017 9:56:08 PM
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Re: Picking up a thread dear to my heart ...
Dmendyk,
Right out of existence, I suspect. Humanity got along without it for a very long time, and it's a costly luxury in many ways.
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