What
does your phone know? (How does your
phone know all this?)
Don’t
Miss The Next Big Thing — iBeacons
In
Apple’s WWDC this year, one of the seemingly minor announcements
has many industries abuzz with anticipation — iBeacons. While
Apple did not highlight this new technology as prominently as others,
mobile app developers and physical retail executives see huge
potential in this nascent technology.
…
Think of it this way: You’re walking through an airport, and your
phone knows you normally buy a cup of coffee around 8am.
So, it sends you a prompt letting you know that a Starbucks is 50
feet away on your left. Or, you’re in a clothing store. Based on
your buying history, your
phone knows your size and what styles you prefer, so it
sends you a prompt telling you where to go in the store to look for
those types of items. Maybe you’re in a grocery store buying a
bottle of wine? Your phone
knows you like Merlot and there’s a sale on one of your
favorite bottles one row over… Your phone could send you a push
notification alerting you to that sale.
Am I
reading this correctly? This is not a development project? Who had
this software ready to sell?
Secret
Service seeks software to monitor current and historical social media
data
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on June 2, 2014
Via
NextGov:
“The Secret Service is purchasing software to watch users of
social networks in real time, according to contract documents. In a
work
order posted on Monday, the agency details information
the tool will collect — ranging from emotions
of Internet users to old Twitter messages. Its
capabilities
will include “sentiment analysis,” “influencer identification,”
“access to historical Twitter data,” “ability
to detect sarcasm,” and “heat maps” or graphics
showing user trends by color intensity, agency officials said. The
automated technology will “synthesize large sets of social media
data” and “identify statistical pattern analysis” among other
objectives, officials said.”
Is
this how we move toward global government? (at least, global laws?)
Or will some banks lie to the IRS and keep my accounts hidden?
IRS
Nets Offshore Data From 77,000 Banks, 70 Countries In FATCA Push
An
astounding 77,000 banks and financial institutions—even some in
Russia—have registered under FATCA—the
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. America’s global tax law
requires foreign banks to reveal American accounts holding over
$50,000. Non-compliant
institutions could be frozen out of U.S. markets, so
everyone is complying. The fact that 77,000 banks have registered
and some 70 countries are providing government help to the IRS means
almost no foreign account is secret.
My
students will appreciate this.
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