Might
be fun to see if any NY taxi drivers really are aliens. (Men in
Black alert)
Vijay
Pandurangan writes:
Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris
Whong received and made public a complete
dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s
pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data
comprising more than 173 million individual trips.
Each trip record includes the pickup and dropoff location and time,
anonymized hack licence number and medallion number (i.e. the taxi’s
unique id number, 3F38, in my photo above), and other metadata.
These data are a veritable trove for people who love cities, transit,
and data visualization. But there’s a big problem: the personally
identifiable information (the driver’s licence number and taxi
number) hasn’t been anonymized properly — what’s worse,
it’s trivial to undo, and with other publicly available data, one
can even figure out which person drove each trip. In the rest of
this post, I’ll describe the structure of the data, what the
person/people who released the data did wrong, how easy it is to
deanonymize, and the lessons other agencies should learn from this.
(And yes, I’ll also explain how rainbows fit in).
Read
more on Medium.
Journalists
are just noticing this?
Lawyers
given green light to scan jurors' social media sites in search of
bias, misconduct
Lawyers
have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of
jurors.
The
American Bar Association says it's ethical for lawyers to scour
online for publicly available musings of citizens called for jury
service — and even jurors in deliberations.
But
the ABA does warn lawyers against actively "following" or
"friending" jurors or otherwise invading their private
Internet areas.
(Related)
This is old news.
Recent
ABA Opinion OK's Investigating Jurors' Social Media Presence
The
American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and
Professional Responsibility is the latest ethics committee to address
the issue of whether attorneys may investigate jurors' and potential
jurors' social media presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn. In ABA Formal Opinion 466 (April
24, 2014), the committee answered the question in the
affirmative.
For
Content Creators for a change...
[Poster]
Which Creative Commons License is Right for me?
Creative
Commons makes it easy for content creators to define a set of rules
under which they would like the public to use their creative work.
For instance, if you upload a photograph on the Internet, you can
apply a Creative Commons license that would allow others to embed
that photograph in a website or use in a presentation but not sell it
commercially.
The
important thing to note about CC licenses is that they are
irrevocable. Thus, if you release your images
under a particular CC license, others will always have the right to
use them under that license even if you later decide to stop
distributing the images under Creative Commons.
If
you have been trying to understand the terms of the various Creative
Commons licenses, this comic
poster from CC
Poland is a good resource to start with. There are 6 types of
licenses with separate conditions attached to each of them and you
got to understand them well before picking a license for your work.
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