Archive for category Digital Tattoo
Would it be nice to erase your online profile and Google results
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on February 21, 2012
The European Commission recently proposed tough new reforms to help people regain control of personal online data from sites like facebook and Google. The Swiss authorities are examining changes to national law that may be ready by 2014.
The new European legislation, presented by European Union Justice Minister Viviane Reding on January 25, aims to give consumers ownership of their own data and to harmonise the patchwork of different laws in force across the European Union’s 27 countries.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Swiss_must_rapidly_review_data_laws.html?cid=32042788
What is your online reputation like?
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on February 15, 2012
Your next employer will use social media to screen your job application
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on February 9, 2012
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy – Facebook is using you
Posted by Security Dude in Analysis, Digital Tattoo on February 5, 2012
Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket corporations, it doesn’t have an inventory of widgets or gadgets, cars or phones. Facebook’s inventory consists of personal data — yours and mine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Credit Karma going to bite you? Banks use your Facebook profile data against you
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on December 23, 2011
Many Americans may be unaware that their social media conversations and posts are providing banks and lenders with a treasure trove of information. In fact, a growing number of banks and lenders are currently building a data repository – collecting, storing and analyzing data – in the hopes that one day it could help them determine your potential credit risk and also tailor marketing directly to you.
The earliest we’ll see banks and lenders begin to act is five years down the road, once they’ve had time to evaluate and correlate specific social media behaviors to actual credit risks. For example, tweeting about walking away from your home may translate as an indicator that you may be delinquent on a future loan. Now banks are doing the math to determine whether these kinds of comments or tweets actually prove true down the road.
Bottom line, if banks and lenders can prove that using social media data as a business tool is successful in assessing behavioral patterns and preventing future losses, then why wouldn’t they?
Could comments that you make online be considered libel?
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on December 7, 2011
On social-networking sites like Facebook, false statements about people that harm their reputation could invite a lawsuit seeking damages.
http://www.straight.com/article-436531/vancouver/riot-comments-turn-focus-online-libel
Your dossier on Facebook – access via your face. Like a QR Code.
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on October 28, 2011
What would you change in Facebook in terms of privacy?
Posted by Security Dude in Digital Tattoo on October 24, 2011
CrowdSourced Technology update – Adobe working on video synchronization technology to automatically sync multiple streams
Posted by Security Dude in Crowdsourcing Accountability, Digital Tattoo, Law Enforcement Social Media Failures on October 11, 2011
Crowd-sourced Video In-sync
One such technology sneak peek was a unique synchronization of crowd-sourced video. Nicholas Bryan, an Adobe Creative Technology Labs intern, showed the audience how he could use a series of video clips shot at a concert to create a documentary of the whole concert with just the single click of an Analyze button.
The clips were from a Taylor Swift concert in San Jose, California, and each video was from a different angle and a variety of cameras, from stage-mounted cameras to handheld cell-phone video clips. All video footage included some view of Taylor Swift’s on-stage performance.
“If all the clips are viewed sequentially,” said Bryan, “it’s easy to see that some of the clips overlap each other, but by varying amounts.”
There weren’t enough clips overlapping to create a multi-camera option for on-demand content playback, but there were enough to fill in large gaps in the concert.
Using a command-line interface, Bryan’s pre-alpha software tool analyzed each video, looking for salient points in the video that were either unique or matched those in at least one of the other videos. In addition, the tool used the audio waveforms to match audio patterns between as many clips as possible.
The end result was a timeline that used all the clips, with corresponding clips overlapping each other and aligned in a completely audio/video-synchronized timing. While the video quality varied from clip to clip, the end result could easily be a crowd-sourced end-to-end video recording of the entire concert, comprised of tens or hundreds of clips from dozens of concertgoers.
“We see this as a breakthrough to allow news events, concerts, and other public events to be documented in a way not easily possible,” said Bryan, “and certainly not possible with today’s current editing and on-demand video tools.”
Adobe to release Photoshop CS6 with awesome technology to catch rioters
Posted by Security Dude in Crowdsourcing Accountability, Digital Tattoo, Law Enforcement Social Media Failures on October 11, 2011
I can remember many times that I took an important video or a picture and later found out it was blurry. Well, CS6 will probably have the new advanced algorithm that fixes blurred photos. In the video above, Adobe presented how they can correct your shaky video or crappy photo into a sharp and clean images. It can also be used to clean up text. It was like watching CSI but in real life. The audience loved the “sneak peek”. Rioters and criminals around the world should be worried. These digital forensic techniques coupled with a bunch of iPhones will get you ID’d. Privacy is dead with the panopticon effect.
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