While the big data vs. insurance rates battle is in its infancy, that does not mean that insurers don’t have plans. They do. Some are already using data from consumers to affect rates. Some insurers say that the data that consumers give them could lower rates and SOME insurers say that the data won’t be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an item in USA Today, counties in New York State not only snap pictures of your license plate, but keep them in a database with date-time and location information. The data is accessible by police throughout the state as well has the Department of Homeland Security. If you take a bunch of pictures […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is an article in Slate that suggests that we should treat public computers like we treat public restrooms – very cautiously. I had never made that analogy before, but I do like it. Both public restrooms and public computers may harbor germs and viruses. Both may have been frequented in the recent past by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Both the New York Times and USA Today reported on an interview with former NSA employee Edward Snowden that appeared in the Guardian. In the interview, Snowden says that NSA analysts do exactly what you would expect twenty something single guys to do when they come across sexually explicit pictures as part of looking for […]
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