Comment Re:oldest piece of "equipment" (Score 1) 622
If you turn promiscuous you can even sniff others' ports while they're at it.
Google to Begin Storing Patients' Health Records 214
mytrip writes with news that Google's health record archive is about to be tested with the assistance of the Cleveland Clinic. Thousands of patients (who must approve the transfer of information) will have access to everything from their medical histories to lab results through what Google considers a "logical extension" of their search engine. We discussed the planning of this system last year.
"Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that's also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools. The health venture also will provide more fodder for privacy watchdogs who believe Google already knows too much about the interests and habits of its users as its computers log their search requests and store their e-mail discussions. Prodded by the criticism, Google last year introduced a new system that purges people's search records after 18 months. In a show of its privacy commitment, Google also successfully rebuffed the U.S. Justice Department's demand to examine millions of its users' search requests in a court battle two years ago."
Comment Privacy is a non-issue if you track yourself (Score 1) 186
Privacy would not be a problem if we consumers were allowed to track ourselves and had complete ownership of our private data.
It would then be great if you could harness your own profile data to personalise every bit of digital content you get in contact with, from web browsing/searching, to mobile usage, to the adverts you see on TV and out in the street.
Corporations invest so much money into CRM systems, yet you only get the benefit of 'personalisation' from each company, whereas if you had your own data silo you could interface with everyone out there.
I'm glad this vision is shared by others. Doc Searls already coined the term VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) and started a community around ProjectVRM.
I still think the biggest challenge is to convince the corporations out there that they can trust such a paradigm-shifting concept, and as a result stop trying to invade our privacy.
It would then be great if you could harness your own profile data to personalise every bit of digital content you get in contact with, from web browsing/searching, to mobile usage, to the adverts you see on TV and out in the street.
Corporations invest so much money into CRM systems, yet you only get the benefit of 'personalisation' from each company, whereas if you had your own data silo you could interface with everyone out there.
I'm glad this vision is shared by others. Doc Searls already coined the term VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) and started a community around ProjectVRM.
I still think the biggest challenge is to convince the corporations out there that they can trust such a paradigm-shifting concept, and as a result stop trying to invade our privacy.
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