Big Data and the Hypocrisy of Privacy
summary
Cities fill with sensors that generate vast streams of raw telemetry — Twitter already pushes 80 GB per day and a gas turbine can produce 520 GB per blade per day — but data only becomes information with context. A low-cost personal Geiger counter project ships units to Japan and yields a crowdsourced real-time radiation map, showing citizen-collected sensing plus Wikipedia-style peer review can validate open data. Examples include insurer/telco driving discounts, smart TVs that record, and the claim that open, contextualized IoT data can strengthen civic oversight.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:00The new way of hiding information
- 2:30The NSA
- 3:40Example
- 5:35Privacy vs Convenience
- 6:10Fukushima
- 6:45Geiger counter
- 8:00Quality of data
- 8:30Future city
