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Gleaning PII from the space-time-travel trail

August 26, 2009 – 11:36 pm

IBM technologist Jeff Jonas thrives on big data sets and personally identifiable information (“PII”). He built his career catching Vegas casino cheats by correlating database records, and now develops “next generation identity analytics” at IBM. I don’t consider myself a privacy fanatic, but I still count a document Jonas compiled on the vast amount of [...]

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Inspiring…or terrifying?

January 26, 2009 – 11:27 pm

[Nicole Wong, Google's deputy general counsel] stressed the importance for Google of bringing its own open culture to foreign countries while still taking into account local laws, customs and attitudes. “What is the mandate? It’s ‘Be everywhere, get arrested nowhere and thrive in as many places as possible.’”
NYT: 28 Nov 2008

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