If you read here often enough then you have seen the references and addition information relative to the World Privacy Forum and their report on “The Secret Scoring of America” while the rest of the world watches. This is right along the same lines here with…
Continue ReadingIt’s funny all kinds of privacy information all over the web and again I’m insistent that we need to license all data sellers as we don’t know who they all are to regulate and we have no index so government and everyone else is just spinning their wheels with…
Continue ReadingThe folks at Data Dealer, the game have an updated video and I’ve included it below. Again we are right back to same problem that nobody wants to admit exists. The video and game were created to exploit and bring this to light. If you watch the video, it’s…
Continue ReadingAs I said before we have turned into a nation of “stat rats” with an over dependence on virtual values which stats are. Sure we need them and it tells us where we need to focus and so on but again I call it “The Grays” to where people can’t tell the differen…
Continue ReadingThis is just taking this a little too far and we know when you let Quants go wild, they will go, and go and go and quantitate and create spurious correlations and sell and market you on the fact they they have value and they do not. If you read around the we…
Continue ReadingWith prediction tools and apps being all the rage today, their reliability and accuracy are not always there. Before the word “prediction” took over, we used to have words like “trending” and number crunches used for a lot of what we saw, but today it’s the …
Continue ReadingWhat can you say when the ONC hired a privacy expert that has worked for a big conglomerate like United to be a privacy expert and has worked on the other side, licensed in California? Is is that slim pickings to where folks can be hired only from one insura…
Continue ReadingAs this article states though there’s no concrete evidence or documentation thus far of any meetings but I think I can safely say one thing here and that’s the fact that even Apple is not sure which direction they are going with all of this. It’s kind o f re…
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your ac…
Continue ReadingWe have another new one added today in the form of Wal-Mart Senior VP Leslie Dach to be Burwell’s senior counselor to help manage the health insurance exchanges. As I have said before I think HHS and CMS has nowhere else to turn with the lack of building the…
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