Keeping your household conversations private!

Mozilla has published instructions on how you can turn off human reviews of household audio captured from voice assistant devices. Check it out!

Book Review: Ethics and Data Science

Ethics and Data Science by Mike Loukides

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Every data scientist or software engineer working with Big Data should read this book! It's short and to the point, distilling what could be a confusing consideration of ethics into a few simple approaches, which will make a big difference for any applied project. Starting with the obvious, pledges and creeds, it quickly shows why they're inadequate. Then, the authors discuss the checklist approach, which is applied, systematic, and reproducible. The book gives practical examples of ethical challenges, showing how easily unexamined projects with noble intentions can go awry! Just raising awareness is a big take-away from the book - and if teams develop and apply the checklist approach, it's far more likely they'll deliver solutions that actually "Walk the Talk" of consumer privacy and responsible data management.

Upgrading to Windows 10? View this first!

If you'll be doing an on-line upgrade to Windows 10, make sure you view this video produced by the Mozilla team with tips on how to configure Win 10 to protect your privacy, reduce unnecessary use of system resources, and to specify which default apps and services you prefer.

RSA says "No!" to NSA fingered random bit generator

Uh... yeah! Way to go RSA :-)

Privacy in the digital age

A favorite author of mine has posted an interesting perspective on privacy that's worth a read. The topic's been on my mind, too. I'll be adding some discussion about it ahead, too.

On-line privacy - what's left of it

Here's an interesting article on how determine which sites you visit are harvesting your Facebook info and, if that concerns you, some things you can do about it.