My Digital FootPrint

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Source: Pew Research : Download Most (US) internet users would like to be anonymous online at least occasionally, but many think it is not possible to be completely anonymous online. New findings in a national survey show: 86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints—ranging from clearing cookies to encrypting their email, from avoiding using their name to using virtual networks that mask their internet protocol (IP) address. 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government Love human behaviour, they think that by deleting what it says on their computer that the record has gone……

According to this study , your Likes of a brand on Facebook are worth about $174.17 to that brand. The reality is that Facebook fans spend more money on the brands they like—$116 a year more than nonfans—even if their income was equal. In addition, those who liked brands were 18% more satisfied with the brand and 11% more likely to continue buying the brand.   We know what we like. Great insight! Syncapse , a social intelligence company, conducted a study with more than 2,000 Facebook users who liked a brand and considered a Facebook user's product spending, loyalty, recommendations, brand affinity and more to come up with the number. Source: http://gizmodo.com/5995468/your-facebook-like-is-worth-17417

I have written about the fact that Social Networks offer insights into how we humans interact with each other many times as they have unparalleled access to real time data. New  analysis from Wolfram Alpha , has examined usage habits and found that it as we expected, but have the data to prove it. Here’s a summary of some of the more notable findings, some of which are depressingly stereotypical, according to Wolfram Alpha designer Stephen Wolfram. The median number of Facebook friends is 342, a number that   varies based on how old you are : Teenagers tend to have more friends than adults do. When you’re younger, most of your friends are your own age , but the range of ages broadens as you get older. Teenage boys tend to have more friends than teenage girls, but that difference disappears as they get older. The older you get, the more likely you are to be married; women get married earlier than men; an...

Gartner Predictions for Big Data from Bruno Aziza

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...

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.

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...

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!

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...

Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world's leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment.  Taken from a lecture given at the RSA in July 2012 . Watch the longer talk here 

Boston consulting group the value-of-our-digital-identity from Fred Zimny

The Digital Universe is an EMC-sponsored study by IDC, measuring and characterizing all the digital data created, replicated, and consumed worldwide in a single year. The 2012 report projects the growth of the Digital Universe through 2020. http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/iview/index.htm or a summary is here http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2012/12/charting-the-digital-universe-idcs-6th-annual-study.html

Sources: http://www.economistgroup.com/leanback/new-business-models/moving-from-mobile-first-to-touch-first/ http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/high_tech/iconsumer “We’re seeing fundamental changes in the way people are interacting with digital media” McKinsey and Company’s research into how consumer digital behavior is changing across platforms, activities and geographies The emergence of the smartphone and tablet computing experience — it is changing where and how computing devices are used. Smaller format screens don’t just mean changing column widths, they mean rethinking the business model. Companies need to have a “mobile first” mindset when developing new content. In the early years of web browsers, there was so much angst about whether print media was doomed that newspapers didn’t know whether to dive into digital editions. Although business models are still evolving, all publishing titles have some form of website now. B...