All’s Well That’s Orwell
Facebook Zombies, AI Masters, Persuasion Paradox & Doomed Millennials
privacy
Can Something Be Both Inevitable & Abominable?
With this Tweet, Microsoft and MasterCard (“Mastersoft”?) announced their partnership to create “universal digital identities“: Voting, driving, applying for a job, renting a home, getting married and boarding a plane: what do these all have in common? You need to prove your identity. In partnership with @Microsoft, we are working to create universally-recognized digital identity. https://t.co/He5syqa5g7
Prediction: Google Will Know All
Status: Occurring Prediction: Google will know all “Google knows your dark, ugly, dirty truths. Your transcribed Google Voice messages reveal you argued nonstop on that island vacation as your kids yelled, “I hate you!” in the background. Your search history shows all your liposuction research, as your Photoshop bills skyrocket. Several of your eHarmony dates
Why Congress Selling Our Privacy is GREAT
Thanks to Congress, ISPs Are Watching You. It sounds like a bad Hall & Oates song. (Are there good Hall & Oates songs??) A crony Congress has “officially” allowed internet and mobile providers to sell consumer data. Something no human has ever asked for. The truth is – this law is just a formality. This ship left
Never Sell Data
I work with a lot of startups and somewhere around year three, their business plan usually includes some flavor of ‘make a bundle selling data’. Like a new year’s resolution to ‘go to the gym and look like Thor’, this won’t happen. If it did, it might do more damage than the pocket change it’s
Why I Should Be Google’s Next CEO
You read that right. CEO. Chief. Evil. Officer. I love Google’s products. I’ve deconstructed its strategy – and written reports on it. But even Google can’t grow forever. Eventually, it will need a dollop of evil to compete – maybe even a full marinade. As I look forward to the new year, I see a lot of people angling to get on Santa’s good side. Not me.
Facebook IPO & the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Facebook vs. Google Data
As I baked muffins to celebrate Facebook’s IPO, it occurred to me that there’s one HUGE, unspoken difference between the data people reveal to Facebook and what Google collects through search and other tools. It’s this: Facebook knows the image you want to project to the world – your “social resume”. Beautiful vacation photos; that perfect profile photo you Photoshopped so much
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