Today on the Edge of Innovation, we talk about what it means to be anonymous, and discuss whether or not it is an illusion.
Tag: privacy
1984 in 2017? The Implications of Our Data-Tracking Technology
Today on the Edge of Innovation, we talk about privacy.
Hackers and lawyers can discover pretty much anything about you. So what is privacy?
Paul mentions how someone was unable to obtain life insurance due to having prescribed to a medication that was allegedly not public information. But if something is in a database somewhere, it is out of your hands. Unintended consequences may come to pass. The more you know about these things the better.
A man with a pacemaker was judged guilty due to the correlation of his pacemaker with a crime. This was “private” information.
Things are only “private” when they don’t matter.
The Craigslist Killer
On Episode 8 of The Edge of Innovation, we talk about how digital footprints make finding a killer almost too easy.
Anonymity is an Illusion
On Episode 7 of The Edge of Innovation, we continue our conversation on what it means to be anonymous, and look at why it is not possible.
Anonymity – Part 1
On Episode 6 of The Edge of Innovation, we are going to be talking about what it means to be anonymous without an identity in the digital age. Paul is going to be helping us think through what that means and what it is.