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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Data breaches are an almost weekly experience these days, and resulted in over 12 million cases of identity theft in 2012. Could an “online digital guardian” reduce or eliminate identity theft and unauthorized charges on our credit cards? IBM thinks so. Should we think so too?
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Do you love to jump in the car on a summer’s day and drive off to nowhere special with the wind in your hair, feeling that you are free and no one knows where you are? If so, better do that soon because before very long, it will be pretty near impossible for the location of your car, now and over time, not to be known to others. Here’s why…
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Identity in the digital age is a new ball game. Digital technology offers great benefits, especially to those in parts of the world who have no way at present to prove their identities. And, of course, the flip side has the potential to create great harm. Let’s take a look at examples of both
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On Feb. 11, there will be a “Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance” on the Web (daywefightback.org) Why? Here’s a little background.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Things move fast in the world of info tech. Here are some stories from just the past single week, and this is far from a complete list. Phew!
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
It’s yearly prediction season for all manner of things, and technology has plenty of predictors making predictions. Some of the most interesting predictions come from IBM. Their annual Five in Five list has been quite successful in looking at technologies that will change how we live our lives. If this year’s crop are correct, we’ll be living in a different world before long. See what you think.
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Think that when you go on the Web, you will be able to access anything that is there? Maybe, maybe not, depending on where you are when you try. Filtering of Web content is big business today for governments, Internet Service Providers, and even libraries. But what is filtered out and why is often very unclear to us users.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Folks who use Netflix benefit from the suggestions that Netflix makes about other movies they might enjoy. But how does Netflix know? One way is by classifying movies into microgenres. And data brokers use the same sort of categorization techniques but they are using them on us, not on movies. The story is available in this Senate Committee Report from December, 2013. www.commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=0d2b3642-6221-4888-a631-08f2f255b577
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