I gave a presentation at Strata London 2016 about data gathered from cars. This is an ongoing research interest of mine but here are the slides and the video.
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I just returned from Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, where I gave a talk entitled “Kosher Collection: Best Practices in Data Handling“. I really had an amazing time at Strata this year and major kudos to the organizers for putting on a great show.
The central premise of my talk is that in today’s world, there is a social contract between data collectors and consumers. Essentially the agreement is that consumers give their personal data to a data collector in exchange for mutual benefit. The problem is that consumers, in general, lack an understanding of the technology as well as data collection and as a result, are unable to provide informed consent. Furthermore, this issue is likely to be exacerbated in the future as the opportunity to opt-out of mass data collection is disappearing.
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It looks like my Strata talk sparked some conversation and an article at ProPublica!
http://www.propublica.org/article/your-smart-home-knows-a-lot-about-you
After reflecting on the matter more, I hope that people will start to understand that these home automation d
evices really are data collection devices for the manufacturer of the device. The Automatic, in my opinion, while it is a very neat device, provides little information that the driver wouldn’t alrea
y know about themselves and hence little benefit to the customer. However, to the Automatic company, when you start aggregating this data, it provides a wealth of data to them. Therefore, devices should have some sort of ranking as to benefit to consumer vs. benefit to company.