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Unknown Knowns by Anonymous on 10/21/2018 Image Credit: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/254214 Donald Rumsfeld during Department of Defense News Briefing, archive.defense.gov. February 12, 2002. The taxonomy of knowledge laid out by Rumsfeld in his much quoted new briefing conspicuously omits a fourth category: unknown knowns. In his critique of Rumsfeld’s analysis, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek defines the unknown knowns as “the disavowed beliefs… [Read more...]

Ethical Issues of the Healthcare Internet of Things By Osmar Coronel  | October 21, 2018 Tracking vital signs on the fly Very likely you are already using an Internet of Things (IoTs) product for your healthcare. Our new connected world IoTs are small computing objects that are constantly collecting information and sending it to the cloud or turning on… [Read more...]

Is the GDPR’s Bark Bigger than its Bite? by Zach Day on 10/21/2018 The landmark EU regulation, formally called the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, took effect on May 25, 2018. Among other protections, GDPR grants “data subjects” with a bundle of new rights and placed an increased obligation on companies who collect and use the data. Firms were… [Read more...]

Healthcare’s Painful: Is HIPAA to blame? By Keith LoMurray on 9/23/2018 Working in healthcare technology, I regularly hear painful stories about people’s experiences with healthcare. People will often talk about the great care they received from an individual doctor or nurse, but then mention the challenges of navigating the impersonal healthcare bureaucracy. Coordinating care between clinics, waiting for records, signing… [Read more...]

The Doctor Will Model You Now: The Rise and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare by Dani Salah | September 23, 2018 As artificial intelligence promises to change many facets of our everyday lives, it will have perhaps no greater change than in the healthcare industry. The increase in data collected on individuals has already proven paramount in improving health… [Read more...]

Hate Speech – How far should social media censorship go, and can there be unintended consequences? By Anonymous, 10/14/2018 Today, there is a lot of harmful or false information being spread around the internet, among the most egregious of which is hate speech. It may seem a difficult task to stop hate speech from spreading over the vast expanse of… [Read more...]

Shopping in the Digital Age – a Psychological Battle by Krissy Gianforte | 14 October 2018 Imagine your last trip to Target. You entered the store with your shopping list in-hand, intending to buy “just a few things”. As you walked down the aisles, though, extra items caught your eye – a cute coffee mug, or a soft throw blanket… [Read more...]

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Tutorial on Obfuscation by Andrew Mamroth | 14 October 2018 In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission pledged to give internet users the power to determine if or when websites were allowed to track their behavior. This was the so called “Do Not Track” list. Now in 2018, this project has been sidelined and widely ignored… [Read more...]

Content Integrity and the Dubious Ethics of Censorship By Aidan Feay | September 30th, 2018 In the wake of Alex Jones’ exile from every social media platform, questions about censorship and content integrity are swirling around the web. Platforms like Jones’ Infowars propagate misinformation under the guise of genuine journalism while serving a distinctly more sinister agenda. Aided by the… [Read more...]

Mapping the Organic Organization Thoughts on the development of a Network Graph for your company Creating the perfect organization for a business is hard. It has to maintain alignment of goals and vision, enable the movement of innovation and ideas, develop the products and services and deliver them, apply the processes and controls needed to remain disciplined, safe and sustainable,… [Read more...]