October 2010
3 posts
Facebook Apps Collect & Share Unauthorized Data
Okay Facebook friends and users, one more time. When you add an app, fan page, or allow a 3rd party item to access your profile, you are giving it a LOT of access to your info, your posts, pics, and many of your friends as well. As this article now points out, developers have been harvesting that data and holding on to it for all sorts of purposes. When these get access to your info, it lets them...
Oct 18th
Body Organs Can Send Status Updates To Your... →
Interesting convergence of medical technology and personal communications. But, I can’t imagine the complexities of securing the systems and data to ensure privacy.  Also, as we all know, anything that transmits can ultimately be “tooled” with illicitly. Regardless, the potential for enhancing people’s lives by cutting the literal cord to monitoring devices is tremendous.
Oct 10th
Smarter Than You Think - Google Cars Drive... →
Google has been experimenting with self-driven vehicles based on artificial-intelligence and multitudes of sensors for some time. Now, it appears that they are on the verge of making them a true success. I think I remember this scene from iRobot.
Oct 10th