Jim Carrey has apologized for tweeting a photo of a child without asking for permission. He’s not the first! 
Tag Archives: data mining
The Big Data picture – just how anonymous are “anonymous” records?
You know those “anonymous surveys” you may have filled in? They don’t tell anyone it was you. Or do they?
Uber: We accessed reporter’s private trip info because she was late
Responding to Senator Al Franken’s questions about its privacy policies, Uber says it accessed a reporter’s account because “she was 30 minutes late” to a meeting and an executive wanted to know when she’d show up so he could meet her in the lobby.
Uber taken to task over anti-journalist privacy debacle
After Uber’s bumpy privacy-related ride this week, US Senator Al Franken has sent a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick with 10 pointed questions about the company’s lackadaisical approach to privacy.
Google plans YouTube clean-up, ready for kid customers
The new services reportedly will include a dashboard for parents, a child-safe YouTube, and a new age requirement on Android gadgets. This might be a good thing. Can you imagine a YouTube that won’t make you feel like you need a shower after a viewing session? Then this might be a bad thing. Helloooooo, micro-data-mining!
Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
Google stops data-mining students’ email
The same goes for all Google Apps customers. The rest of us Gmail users are still going to be data-mined up the wazoo, of course. 