This week, a friend said to me, “If Facebook fell into the sun about now, I’m not sure I’d be sad.” Personally, I was having…
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As headlines go, another story about Facebook in trouble over their mishandling of user data is “Dog Bites Man,” isn’t it? But when TechCrunch revealed…
Just two days ago, on January 28th, the U.S. recognized the 22nd annual occurrence of National Privacy Day. Didn’t even know there was such a…
It should come as no surprise that the world has become data-driven. Even libraries reflect this new reality; it’s no longer unusual to see CE…
OPLIN 4cast #559: Data = money
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This past week, news broke of yet another huge data breach, this time involving the financial data of 143 million people that was stolen from…
The recent thread on the OPLINTECH list about solid state vs mechanical drives in computers is a reminder that the traditional methods of storing data…
OPLIN 4cast #446: Blockchain
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You have likely heard of Bitcoins, but may not have heard too much about blockchain, the technology that makes Bitcoins work. Blockchain is very difficult…
OPLIN 4cast #432: You want privacy?
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Just about everybody would like to feel that the things they do on the Internet remain private, at least sometimes. In reality, many of us,…
There’s an old saying: “Follow the money.” At the end of 2014, a lot of people were following the money invested by Google Ventures, an…