How much privacy intrusion will you tolerate to take your
kid on a ride or for a stay at a Disney property?
Joe Cadillic writes:
Imagine going through a metal
detector before you check into your hotel room, imagine being patted down and
searched before you get inside your hotel. Imagine Disney using facial biometrics to spy
on everyone in your family.
Well imagine no more, it’s
already happening.
According to an article
in the Orlando Sentinel, Disney World has made going to your hotel and
amusement park a virtual trip to a TSA checkpoint. Disney World has installed metal detectors and
bag searches at all of their hotel entrances and park entrances.
Read more on MassPrivateI.
I wonder who reviewed this request before it was
issued?
Twitter pulls lawsuit after feds back down
Twitter has withdrawn a lawsuit against the U.S.
government after the Customs and Border Protection backed down on a demand that
the social media outlet reveal details about a user account critical of the
agency.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, contended that the customs agency was abusing its investigative
power. The customs agency has the
ability to get private user data from Twitter when investigating cases in areas
such as illegal imports, but this case was far from that.
The target of the request was the @alt_uscis
account, one of a number of "alt" accounts that have sprung up on
Twitter since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The accounts are critical of the new
administration and most claim to be run by current or former staff members of
government agencies.
An indication of how the EU sees Trumps rhetoric?
MEPs want Commission to toughen up Privacy Shield under Trump
The European Parliament wants the European Commission to
‘Trump-proof’ the Privacy Shield data sharing agreement between the EU and the
United States after the new US administration threatened to roll back some
privacy safeguards.
A slender majority of MEPs approved a resolution today (6
April) asking the Commission to force the Trump administration to guarantee
privacy safeguards and give the European Parliament access to documents
detailing how the Privacy Shield agreement has been enforced by US authorities
during a legal review in September. The
resolution passed with 306 votes in favour and 240 against.
Perspective. The
business of Big Data.
Otonomo raises $25M to help automakers make money from
connected cars
It’s no secret that data is the hot new revenue
source for automakers, who are seeing additional profit opportunities bloom as
vehicles become more connected and they can retrieve a ton of useful data
that’s incredibly valuable when deployed correctly. Israeli startup otonomo has been on top of that trend since its founding in
2015, with nine automakers worldwide using its platform to feed a marketplace
that connects car makers and drivers with service providers, optimizing the
monetization of that data.
… “There are more
and more connected cars out there, and those connected cars are sending a lot
of data in the background all the time to big databases the car manufacturers
have built,” Volkow explained. “They send the data between every minute to every
three or four minutes depending on the model, and also when you start the car,
when you park the car or when you have an event.”
All this data is valuable to car makers, for their own use
in developing new vehicles, services and technologies. But it’s also an additional cost load to bear.
“It costs a lot of money for the OEs; putting the modem in
the car is like $100, then you have to pay AT&T about $5 per month to get
the data out, then it’s about $1 to store the data,” Volkow said.
… Otonomo’s
platform is a cloud solution, with nothing additional required in the car, that
connects on one side to the databases of the car manufacturers, and on the
other to different services and applications that want this data. This group of customers including insurance
companies, smart cities, workshops, dealerships, developers, and even hedge
funds – “everybody wants car data,” as Volkow puts it.
Just because, “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.” Santayana
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