The Curse of Unlimited Information »

28 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In today’s news, Swedish mash-up service Lexbase combines public data on home addresses with court data on convicted criminals, creating a map where you can see if your neighbour was ever in trouble w... »

0 Comment

Schmidt Shares Netopia’s Concerns over Job Loss »

24 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

The Davos-connection. This week, I wrote about technology leading to job loss, the so-called Luddite fallacy. Not sure Google Chairman Eric Schmidt reads Netopia regularly (probably not, right?), but ... »

2 Comment

Apple Faces Lawsuit for Selling Personal Info to Third Parties »

22 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

There has been a lot of criticism against how cloud companies abuse their customers privacy in doing their business. The phrase “If you’re not paying for a service, you’re not the consumer – you’re th... »

0 Comment

Anticipatory Shipping – Amazon Looks Deep into the Crystal Ball »

19 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Many of us shook our heads thinking they had lost the marbles upon reading Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s and Kenneth Cukier’s theories on how prediction and probability will rule everything from insuranc... »

0 Comment

POTUS Puts Leash on Surveillance Agency – Short Enough? »

18 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

It seems to never end – only this week we learned that the NSA’s Dishfire-system picks up close to 200 million text messages every day. Americans are not the only culprits, UK’s GCHQ also use the syst... »

7 Comment

Open Tech Does Not Equal Open Society »

15 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

This week, Netopia contributor Ralf Grötker reviews Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything, Click Here. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the digital society, in fact anyone interested in s... »

0 Comment

Selling Shovels in a Gold Rush »

13 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

To make money in a gold rush, you want to be selling the shovels. In the current gold rush, those are digital however. I’m talking about Bitcoin of course, which is close to $1000 again after the big ... »

5 Comment

Computer Says No »

12 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In a classic Little Britain-episode, a hospital receptionist suggests absurd, even horrible, treatments to patients. According to the receptionist, a five year-old girl has an appointment for a hip re... »

0 Comment

Europe’s Online Super-Heroes »

9 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Super-hero metaphors is how Techcrunch (the mother of tech blogs) presents the European Commission’s “Entrepreneur 2020” framework. But even if the Com were Batman, can Europe really become Silicon Va... »

0 Comment

The Problem with Big Data »

8 January 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Today, Netopia contributor Jane Whyatt portrays Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Oxford University’s professor of internet governance. Mayer-Schönberger is one of the most quoted thinkers in our humble web p... »

0 Comment

« Newer posts

Older posts »