My Digital FootPrint

The basics are that Facebook searches your " social graph " because it has your and your friends specific "Likes, pages, click, links, connections and conversations" The result is that searching should produce more relevant results thank Google's "Whole World Wide Web".  In other words it feeds you what you have fed it. The signals; your and your friends "Likes" are a somewhat limited data set -  it is not everything you do on the web and does not represent what others do.  However, Google sells search and Facebook also now sells search - in fact since you Like it Facebook can sell (advertise to you) you what you Like and with that Signal increase the advertising margin (hope) when it sells the placement. Simple - tell you what you tell me because you Like it. What Facebook needs to do is add more data as real social graph results as the current one is rather limited ----   http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/ It essence is ...

Gartner Predictions for Big Data from Bruno Aziza

Having done some reading and catch up this morning on the blog - sorry for the delays but moving from Posterous put a delay in me posting. Current views points coming through is about digital leaders and understanding. However, I still have the same problem. Digital business leadership is not about "likes" it is about living data and what it is telling you and how to use that data to both improve margin, reduce costs, drive efficiency and delight the customer more. The crux is often not what the data you have is telling you, but what it is not and what data you should have collected….. Point in case is Fan data - some research mentioned here is about what the data tells you but it does assume that what someone is telling you is truthful.  The eternal problems of signals.

MIT Sloan and Capgemini report on  how firms that “get digital” are massively outperforming their peers. " The Digital Advantage: How digital leaders outperform their peers in every industry " Report summary -  “Digital maturity matters" The report looks at 391 large firms across multiple industries to see where digital is having an impact. Importantly, the report proves that there is a significant financial benefit from adopting digital strategies, technologies as well as re-engineering processes and people to take advantage of the digital shifts we are seeing as a result of social media driving social business. Two types of digital transformation 1)   Digital intensity:  an investment in technology-enabled initiatives to change how the company operates (customer engagements, internal operations and business models) 2)   Transformation management intensity:   – while it is a mouthful to say, it describes the   leadership capabili...

source : http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/ Google has released new data for the   Transparency Report , showing that the steady increase in government requests for our users’ data continued in the second half of 2012, as usage of our services continued to grow. They have shared figures like this   since 2010   because it’s important for people to understand how government actions affect them. For the first time they are including   a breakdown of the kinds of legal process that government entities in the U.S. use when compelling communications and technology companies to hand over user data. From July through December 2012: 68 percent of the requests Google received from government entities in the U.S. were through subpoenas. These are requests for user-identifying information, issued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”), and are the easiest to get because they typically don’t involve judges. 22 percent were t...

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Source: http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PS-future-issues-full-report.pdf   Global survey of experts predicts the biggest privacy issues for 2013as mobile apps, mobile geo-location and data aggregation “Predictions for Privacy”, which surveyed more than 180 regulators, legal experts and privacy professionals from 19 countries identifies the key trends and major issues that are likely to emerge over the coming year. The report was compiled by the Privacy Surgeon and has been published by LSE Enterprise, the commercial and professional arm of the London School of Economics. It warns of a possible crisis of confidence over online privacy. The report warns that the exploitation of personal information by governments and corporations has tested the limits of public tolerance. The aim of the project was to establish a framework to identify the likely trends and events that would shape public policy and media reporting in the privacy realm over...

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Manifesto.pdf This Manifesto aims to launch an open debate on the impacts of the computational era on public spaces, politics and societal expectations toward policymaking in the Digital Agenda for Europe’s remit. More broadly, this Manifesto2 aims to start a reflection on the way in which a hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the referential frameworks on which policies are built.

Future Identities: Changing identities in the UK – the next 10 years DR 5: How will surveillance and privacy technologies impact on the psychological notions of identity Ian Brown. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. January 2013 “This review has been commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight project, Future Identities: Changing identities in the UK – the next 10 years . The views expressed do not represent policy of any government or organisation.” You can download it   here   (pdf). Brown does not address how the use of pseudonyms for some online activities and real names for other purposes might impact psychological notions of identity. Does it give individuals a stronger sense of their social identities or does it negatively impact identity while possibly reducing discrimination or other adverse consequences of surveillance? Does the use of pseudonyms to protect privacy allow the benefits of online interactions in identity development...

Source:   http://www.visionmobile.com/ Turning openness into a competitive advantage - full PDF report here . “Open” can mean different things to different people. Standardization and interoperability (a form of openness) were among the key factors that allowed mobile telephony and SMS to scale and achieve ubiquitous cross-carrier capabilities. As long as telephony and SMS were tightly integrated with telecom networks, interoperability of services between telecom operators meant interoperability of networks. For example, for SMS and MMS to work across operator boundaries, networks of different operators must interoperate at the service layer. The transition to IP made services independent of networks and changed this fundamental assumption. IP has become a universal interoperability layer between transport networks, while interoperability at the service layer took on a totally new meaning. For example, Whatsapp could displace much of SMS and MMS traffic and achieve huge gl...

What Privacy Is For? Julie E. Cohen   Georgetown University Law Center November 5, 2012 Harvard Law Review, Vol. 126, 2013   Abstract:          Privacy has an image problem. Over and over again, regardless of the forum in which it is debated, it is cast as old-fashioned at best and downright harmful at worst — anti-progressive, overly costly, and inimical to the welfare of the body politic. Yet the perception of privacy as antiquated and socially retrograde is wrong. It is the result of a conceptual inversion that relates to the way in which the purpose of privacy has been conceived. Like the broader tradition of liberal political theory within which it is situated, legal scholarship has conceptualized privacy as a form of protection for the liberal self. Its function is principally a defensive one; it offers shelter from the pressures of societal and technological change. So characterized, however, privacy is reactive and ultimately inessen...

The Value of our Digital Identity report recently published by   Boston Consulting Group , based on a new empirical consumer research, offers a new perspective. The most important takeaway from this research is that it quantifies the current and potential economic value of digital identity: "The report shows that the value created through digital identity can indeed be massive: €1 trillion in Europe by 2020, or roughly 8 percent of the combined GDP of the EU-27. For European businesses and governments, the use of personal data will deliver an annual benefit of €330 billion by 2020—bringing growth to an otherwise stagnant economy. For individuals, the value will be more than twice as large: €670 billion. Much of that will be due to online services such as Facebook and Google that can be offered free of charge—thanks to business models that monetize personal data—yet are highly valued by consumers"

Source: Department of Homeland Security, Privacy Office 2012 Data Mining Report to Congress - February 2013 You can download  the full report   here  - Great if you cannot sleep but unsure of the value!

http://www.deadsoci.al/ a network giving a virtual voice to the dearly departed enabling you to continue to be social after you die? Even after you die, your digital self (should/ can/ could) live on. “We create this digital footprint when we’re alive and it’s just a logical next step that some people will want to utilize something that makes it so that footprint doesn’t abruptly end,” says DeadSocial founder James Norris. “We spend so much time pruning our social profiles, it’s down to individuals to decide whether they want their accounts to die when they do.” What happens to our social profiles has become a point of contention. Some families have wrestled with networks to regain the deceased’s account, and others have been disturbingly active from the grave thanks to system errors. And anyone who knows someone deceased wonders what to do: Do you post on her Timeline? Do you send a DM to aid the grieving process? Or do you just stare at their page, frozen in time?

The   World Economic Forum  has published its 3rd report on personal data: Rethinking Personal Data:   Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage . The other reports are on the WED site Rethinking Personal Data   The report says we must solve simplicity and elegance of design for usability so people can see the data generated by and about them. The last part of the executive summary calls for "stakeholders to more effectively understand the dynamics of how the personal data ecosystem operates. A better coordinated way to share learning, shorten feedback loops and improve evidence-based policy-making must be established." The second chapter covers the context of data use, where everything surrounding data use affects people's privacy expectations and the choices of institutions using their data. It's great seeing this level of nuance brought to a general business audience. This report is notable for highlighting the role of the   p...

Would you believe it ….Your digital footprint says a lot more about you than you think ! Researchers at Cambridge University ( study press release ) published at http://www.pnas.org/ distilled Facebook data to predict some personality traits or behaviours such as “sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age and gender.”  Well if you give off the signals (links, likes, pages) it is quite easy to determine…. The analysis is based on 58,000 volunteers who offered to share their Facebook “likes.” Using the information gleaned from Facebook, the researchers were able to accurately tell a man’s sexual orientation 88 percent of the time, whether they were white or African-American 95 percent of the time, and whether they were a Democrat or Republican 85 percent of the time. Even religious affiliation, specifically determining if a person was Christian or Muslim, wa...

This is a screen shot from the old blog when on the Posterous platform as a reminder of the nearly 400,000 views.

Source :Report on the Second Personal Cloud Meetup | Respect Network http://respectnetwork.com/2013/03/13/report-on-the-second-personal-cloud-meetup/

Source: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-influence-should-work/ The source about is from Chris Brogan - well worth reading about how created digital footprints are not about influence in the real sense. The reflective question being posed by Chris is a good one. What is real influence? Essentially it is that is influence is about me accepting and being ready to accept ideals as they are timely and not about how much you can tell me what to do! one to think on….

Apologies for the delays as I have moved over and sorry if there are now broken links in the blog…. will sort at some point.  It has been a journey from Posterous to Blogger via Wordpress  old site back up is now here ....  http://mydigitalfootprintdotcom.wordpress.com/