Posted in Tech on Jul 13th, 2009 No Comments »
This is sooo cool. People at sprxmobile.com made a special augmented reality browser, called Layar. What is does is that is show you digital reality over the physical reality in the screen of your phone. For example you point you phone at a house and over the camera picture it is shown if it is [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Regarding privacy a lot of fuss is often made about the information that the government collects about this. And I must say the government collects a lot. An interesting case recently was with two criminals in the Netherlands. After stealing 21 cars they have been apprehended. The police stores every license plate in a database [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
A small row in the UK because the wife of the new head of MI6 has placed pictures of her family including her husband on Facebook including information on the place where they live, where they go on holiday and other information. I think this is a good example of how more and more people [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Some time ago I wrote about the dangers of developments like child dossiers used by governments. One of the major risks is that people that will use this information use it without knowledge of the context when the information was stored. Information without context is hard to interpret leaves a lot of room for personal [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Google is at the moment making pictures of all the citys in the Netherlands for their streetview service. Besides this being a usefull service (what does that area look like) it leads to some bizarre situations: In some cases Google has by accident photographed famous dutch people. Even though the faces are blurred in most [...]
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