The new personal data landscape At our recent event ‘To hoard or to share: midata and the personal data-sharing revolution’ Alan Mitchell discussed the Government’s midata programme in the broader context of changes to the personal data landscape. We’ve now published a report on the New Personal Data Landscape that identifies these transformational trends, highlights the emerging market for new personal data management services and analyses the opportunities and threats for organisations. For the last fifty years organisations have had a monopoly on the collection and use of customer data. But this is changing. Individuals are starting to collect and manage their own data and, as a result of this, there is an emerging market for personal data management services to capitalise on this opportunity. As individuals become managers of their own information they are becoming the natural point of integration of data about them and this is creating new sets of aggregated data of enormous value.
Rethinking personal data | World Economic Forum-Rethinking personal data Report: Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage, February 2013 Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage, prepared in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, examines the need for new approaches in the policies which enable the managing of personal data in ways that are flexible, adaptive and contextually driven. The report highlights outcomes from a nine month, multistakeholder, global dialogue on how the principles for using personal data may need to be refreshed to ensure they protect the rights of individuals, unlock socio-economic value and are fit for the complexities of a hyperconnected world. A key insight from the report notes that the age of Big Data creates both new opportunities and risks, particularly as they relate to the privacy of individuals. The report calls for the importance of establishing an updated set of principles and the means to uphold them in a hyperconnected world. Who owns personal data?
Search engines remain popular—and users are more satisfied than ever with the quality of search results—but many are anxious about the collection of personal information by search engines and other websites. Search engines remain popular—and users are more satisfied than ever with the quality of search results—but many are anxious about the collection of personal information by search engines and other websites. Most search users disapprove of personal information being collected for search results or for targeted advertising The Pew Internet & American Life survey in February 2012 included several questions probing how respondents feel about search engines and other websites collecting information about them and using it to either shape their search results or target advertising to them. Specifically, the survey posed the following choices to search engine users: All internet users were posed the following choice regarding targeted advertising: Overall views of search engine performance are very positive For more than a decade, Pew Internet data has consistently shown that search engine use is one of the most popular online activities, rivaled only by email as an internet pursuit.
Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his favorite new geek stuff from 2010. Looking back at 2010, I’m particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. Just when I thought I had time to start reflecting on the year another project popped up onto my radar! And then another. As I started assembling a list of launches from 2010 that caught my eye, I grouped them into the categories I used last year: New Products and Services, New Projects, Feature Updates, and Mobile Apps. New Products/ServicesApple Airplay, iBooks, iPad, Magic Trackpad My iPad can just about always be found in my backpack. Boxee Box The Boxee Box reminds me a bit of the Nexus One: it’s a very good, controlled demonstration of the power of the platform.
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SAML Tutorial | SAML 2.0 Background Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) holds the dominant position in terms of industry acceptance for federated identity deployments. SAML is deployed in tens of thousands of cloud single sign-on (SSO) connections. SAML is XML-based which makes it a very flexible standard. Interoperability also gives SAML a huge advantage over proprietary SSO mechanisms. The Kantara Initiative, formerly known as the Liberty Alliance, has established a very successful interoperability testing program where SAML vendors prove out-of-the-box interoperability with other SAML implementations. How it Works Enterprise SAML identity federation use cases generally revolve around sharing identity between an existing IdM system and web applications. EVRYTHNG Study on monetising privacy. An economic model for pricing personal information Do some individuals value their privacy enough to pay a mark-up to an online service provider who protects their information better? How is this related to personalisation of services? This study analyses the monetisation of privacy. ‘Monetising privacy’ refers to a consumer’s decision of disclosure or non-disclosure of personal data in relation to a purchase transaction.
How to create your own Stylish Facebook Timeline cover image You must have seen some of these innovative Facebook new Timeline cover images by now and also by now must have thought to create a unique design for your own Timeline profile. So follow this tutorial and you will end up in creating your own unique design. This tutorial only applicable to you if you have activate Timeline in your Facebook account. Ok I am ready - Now tell me how Note: I have made this tutorial for creating the cover using Photoshop (though it can be done with any image editing software) so I expect that you have a copy of that. Step 1: Download the attached PSD file and open it in Photoshop To ease the process I have already created a PSD file that will come handy for you to create your unique design. Link: DownloadDownloaded 20954 times Step 2: Get your cover image In this tutorial I will try to replicate the first timeline cover above. I hope you have downloaded the PSD and the above image by now. Step 4: Copy your cover image in this PSD Step 5: Adjust and resize the image