From Huffington Post story today. Since we are ravers about online and cloud based services, thought to include another POV, so we can be “Balanced and Fair”.
Huff post tends to like to sensationalize things, and their “story” on Mr. Hunts video is written to provoke.
As we know, there’s a lot of hope for “big data” enabling powerful aids to learning…so called adaptive learning… and consumers certainly need a LOT of help in analyzing and obtaining appropriate healthcare at affordable cost levels. Big data can help a lot with that too.
So it’s not all scary bad stuff that Big Data exists. However, there IS a scary part to the story, and there are solid reasons to fear Big Brother too.
(Cursor click on graphic below for link to video of Hunt’s talk today.)
The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday.
Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos — and that the agency wants all of it.
“It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information,” Hunt said. After that mark is reached, Hunt said, the agency would also like to be able to save and analyze all of the digital breadcrumbs people don’t even know they are creating.
“You’re already a walking sensor platform,” he said, noting that mobiles, smartphones and iPads come with cameras, accelerometers, light detectors and geolocation capabilities.
“You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off,” he said. “You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should.”
Hunt also spoke of mobile apps that will be able to control pacemakers — even involuntarily — and joked about a “dystopian” future where self-driving cars force people to go to the grocery store to pick up milk for their spouses.
Hunt’s speech barely touched on privacy concerns. But he did acknowledge that they exist.
“Technology in this world is moving faster than government or law can keep up,” he said. “It’s moving faster I would argue than you can keep up: You should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data.”