Here's the video from the talk I gave last week at the O'Reilly Strata conference on "big data" in NYC. The talk is called "Designing for Human Sensors, Not Human Barcodes," and it talks about the philosophy underpinning the "privacy bargain" we strike online when we trade personal information for access to services.
Talk on the privacy bargain, big data, and human sensors versus human barcodes
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A nerve-wracking climb down the world's worst ladder design
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Watch this cosplaying critic's epic takedown of Disney's catastrophic Star Wars Hotel
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