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NSA Spinoff Sqrrl, Commercializing Big Data Software
NSA Spinoff Sqrrl Is Commercializing Big Data Software | MIT Technology Review: "It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency. Chris Lynch, an investor with Atlas Venture, knows this firsthand. Two years ago, he spent weeks trying to sign a deal with nervous NSA programmers who not only were sworn to secrecy but were barred from carrying cell phones at work. There were furtive Skype conversations and parking-lot phone calls that would end after strange clicks. Eventually, $2 million in seed money was enough to lure five programmers from the NSA. These days they’re working at Sqrrl, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that’s selling a commercial version of the database behind some of the spy agency’s most controversial eavesdropping programs. “These guys were government hacks working in a cave, and in a highly structured environment,” says Lynch. “Kind of the opposite of an entrepreneur.”..." (read more at link above)
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Data Without Endangering Privacy
Intel Invents a Way to Combine Data Sets without Endangering Privacy | MIT Technology Review: "....Chipmaker Intel thinks it has a way to let valuable data be combined and analyzed without endangering anyone’s privacy. Its researchers are testing a super-secure data locker where a company could combine its sensitive data with that from another party without either side risking that raw information being seen or stolen...."
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The Big Data We Give Away
Big Data and Privacy -- the issue is not going away --
Obama's NSA phone-record law ignores the other (big) data we're giving away | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | theguardian.com: " . . . But the future of information hoovering is about much more than "metadata": this is your every move, collected and massaged already by an array of for-profit companies, as well as a new generation of businesses being created to take advantage of the very real benefits – and very frightening downsides – of what's being called the Big Data era. Part of this is the longstanding collection by third parties that exist to know – and sell – everything about us. Companies like Acxiom have way more personal information, and get far less scrutiny, than the online operators, though that ratio is changing as the Googles of the world push for ever-deeper understanding of how we behave and think, how we get to the bus stop and dress for work. Another part is even more hidden. The police need a warrant to install a GPS tracker in your car, but they can just buy your location from businesses that aim, via license-plate photography, to build a nationwide database of everywhere you've driven. This kind of bulk collection is going to spread, because it can. The worst part is, you and I have too little control – if any...."
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Obama's NSA phone-record law ignores the other (big) data we're giving away | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | theguardian.com: " . . . But the future of information hoovering is about much more than "metadata": this is your every move, collected and massaged already by an array of for-profit companies, as well as a new generation of businesses being created to take advantage of the very real benefits – and very frightening downsides – of what's being called the Big Data era. Part of this is the longstanding collection by third parties that exist to know – and sell – everything about us. Companies like Acxiom have way more personal information, and get far less scrutiny, than the online operators, though that ratio is changing as the Googles of the world push for ever-deeper understanding of how we behave and think, how we get to the bus stop and dress for work. Another part is even more hidden. The police need a warrant to install a GPS tracker in your car, but they can just buy your location from businesses that aim, via license-plate photography, to build a nationwide database of everywhere you've driven. This kind of bulk collection is going to spread, because it can. The worst part is, you and I have too little control – if any...."
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