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A Visualization of Everything Gmail Knows About You and Your Friends

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  When Google hands over e-mail records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and e-mail addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The FEDS can then mine that information for patterns that might be useful in a law-enforcement investigation.   What kind of relationships do they see in an average account? Researchers at MIT Media Lab , have developed  a tool called Immersion  that taps into your Gmail and displays the results as an interactive graphic.      

Mindsets which can destroy the value of data!

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Tony Fish @My Digital Footprint I have been working with several teams on data driven innovations and failing to create the value expected. Listed below are some mindsets which I have come across that appear to create hurdles to the data opportunity. The theme underlying these views, I believe, is the same as the old philosophy argument on behaviour and judgement which is “are you Fact or Opinion biased?”  Personally I am defiantly and firmly in the “tell me your opinion.” The Internet has allowed the world to find, no matter what the opinion, some data to support it.  As I can/will always find facts to back any story, I want to know what you’re thinking, why you hold that view and what drives you. Why do I think this; because strategy and innovation is a judgement on outcomes and not a science.  I find it interesting that many are trying to prove me right or wrong with their data, rather than accepting that my opinion is mine and it is neither right or wrong but based on

Core Concepts in Identity via @identitywoman

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Tony Fish @My Digital Footprint Source: http://www.identitywoman.net/core-concepts-in-identity Worth reading as provides a lexicon …. and this is my visual interruption

The Value of Identity Data and Identity Etiquette

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Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online from @pewresearch

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Source: Pew Research : Download Most (US) internet users would like to be anonymous online at least occasionally, but many think it is not possible to be completely anonymous online. New findings in a national survey show: 86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints—ranging from clearing cookies to encrypting their email, from avoiding using their name to using virtual networks that mask their internet protocol (IP) address. 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government Love human behaviour, they think that by deleting what it says on their computer that the record has gone……

Dilbert: we now use data from the Internet to see what you've been up to

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THE CONSUMER POTENTIAL OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION

Master thesis sdeg pieter van de glind - 3845494 - the consumer potential of collaborative consumption - august 2013 from Pieter van de Glind