The dedicated Big Data we're all doomed thread (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

I know a fair amount of this has been in the facebook thread before but we could probably do with a dedicated thread.

I was reading this last night:

We Know How You Feel - The New Yorker

Not long ago, Verizon drafted plans for a media console packed with sensors, including a thermographic camera (to measure body temperature), an infrared laser (to gauge depth), and a multi-array microphone. By scanning a room, the system could determine the occupants’ age, gender, weight, height, skin color, hair length, facial features, mannerisms, what language they spoke, and whether they had an accent. It could identify pets, furniture, paintings, even a bag of chips. It could track “ambient actions”: eating, exercising, reading, sleeping, cuddling, cleaning, playing a musical instrument. It could probe other devices—to learn what a person might be browsing on the Web, or writing in an e-mail. It could scan for affect, tracking moments of laughter or argument. All this data would then shape the console’s choice of TV ads. A marital fight might prompt an ad for a counsellor. Signs of stress might prompt ads for aromatherapy candles. Upbeat humming might prompt ads “configured to target happy people.” The system could then broadcast the ads to every device in the room.

and this cartoon just now

projects.aljazeera.com/2014/terms-of-service/


and then we also have this going on in Ireland

Unanswered legal problems with the Government’s new database of children | Tuppenceworth.ie blog

Does anyone wanna tell me that it'll all gonna be alright? All I can see is ways where this kind of data will be used for crowd control by Police forces and the like

 

[pete]

It's not going to be alright.

 

[Lili Marlene]

But at least we have a dedicated thread about it, amiright???

 

[pete]

Irish Government projects and the Data Protection Rake | The DOBlog

 

[pete]

But at least we have a dedicated thread about it, amiright???

job done