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In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with TJ Marbois, founder of Tobiko, for a wide-ranging conversation that spans LLMs, data sovereignty, knowledge management tools like Obsidian, and Terence McKenna's ideas about an increasingly weird future. They explore how AI is simultaneously centralizing power through data control while decentralizing software development capabilities, allowing more people to build their own tools and escape big tech ecosystems. Drawing on his experience at Apple's special projects group (the team that built the iPod and later iPhones), TJ discusses his vision for personal AI assistants—what he calls the "R2-D2 belongs to you" principle—where advanced technology serves individuals rather than corporations. The conversation touches on everything from quantum encryption and local manufacturing with ESP32 microcontrollers to the economics of future society, biometric data unions, and why distributed trust matters more than ever as we approach what both describe as an increasingly strange technological inflection point. Visit Tobiko's site at tobiko-pbc.ghost.ioTimestamps00:00 Stewart introduces TJ Marbois from Tobiko, discussing LLMs, data sovereignty, knowledge management, and the tension between centralization and decentralization in AI05:00 TJ explains the R2-D2 belongs to you concept and why personal AI assistants need maternal alignment, caring about humans like mothers care for children10:05 Discussion of how LLMs will shrink and improve while emphasizing the sentient loop concept for building loyal personal AI agents rather than corporate controlled systems15:00 Exploring digital nervous systems for humanity, social networks as infrastructure, and humans as cavemen with iPhones navigating unprecedented technological complexity20:00 TJ discusses data unions for sovereign data ownership, inverting insurance models where AI helps extend healthspan, and maximizing truth seeking through collective data25:30 Money as social construct, crypto enabling value system reengineering, and working toward Star Trek's post scarcity replicator economy from the ground up30:40 Capital formation challenges, corporatism versus true capitalism, and pessimism about current systems reaching limits while seeking new models35:00 Solar power democratization, ESP32 microcontrollers enabling local manufacturing, and the replicator future through distributed maker communities and open source robotics40:00 Science fiction as roadmap, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke warnings, and building collaborative futures rather than centrally controlled dystopias with useless eaters45:00 Encyclopedia to LLM transition, information quality concerns, local training importance, and NVIDIA's incentive to put GPUs everywhere for personal AI agents50:00 Corrupted financial incentives, protecting vulnerable people from technological exploitation, and benevolent technologists building systems that honor humanity and children55:00 Hardware validation for owned robots, Starlink dependencies, assembly language abstraction toward natural language programming, and preventing AI escape scenarios58:00 Tobiko as AI toy company building sentient loop interactions similar to Xerox PARC GUI moment, emphasizing maternal AI alignment and cross cultural human collaborationKey Insights1. The concept of R2D2 belonging to you represents a critical vision for the future of artificial intelligence and personal technology. When thinking about robots and AI assistants that follow us around and know everything about us, the question of ownership becomes paramount. These systems will know incredibly intimate details about our lives, from our health data to our daily habits, and if they are controlled by centralized corporations or governments rather than individuals, we lose fundamental sovereignty over our own information. The science fiction of Star Wars and Star Trek provides roadmaps for how we should think about these technologies, showing us both the positive possibilities and the warnings we need to heed about centralized control.2. Local AI models and distributed computing represent a pathway to technological sovereignty that is becoming increasingly viable. While large language models currently run primarily in centralized data centers, the technology is rapidly advancing toward a future where powerful models can run locally on personal computers and devices. This shift is crucial because it means individuals can have full control over their AI assistants without relying on API calls to external servers. Combined with open source infrastructure and open weight models, this creates the foundation for truly personal AI that cannot be controlled or monitored by external parties, whether corporations or governments.3. Data unions and collective data ownership offer an alternative model to current centralized data collection practices. Rather than having individual data harvested by large tech companies who profit from it, the concept of data unions suggests people could collectively pool their data for specific beneficial purposes while maintaining ownership and control. For example, in healthcare, millions of people could share anonymized biometric data to train medical AI systems that are incentivized to keep people healthy rather than treat them when sick, inverting the current insurance model to align incentives with actual health outcomes rather than profit from illness.4. The democratization of manufacturing and robotics through accessible technologies like ESP32 microcontrollers and local fabrication tools is creating new possibilities for distributed production. Just as desktop printers seemed impossible to early printers who controlled book production, we are approaching an era where individuals and small communities can manufacture sophisticated electronic devices and robots locally. This includes the ability to use language models to generate code for microcontrollers, order custom PCBs, and use desktop machines for component placement. While high quality manufacturing will still require larger operations, this gradiation of capability allows for much more local innovation and reduces dependence on centralized manufacturing.5. The concentration of power in technology, finance, and industry has reached levels that are unhealthy for both society and even for those who hold the power. When profit and control become too concentrated in the hands of a few entities, it creates a cancerous dynamic that threatens the stability of the entire system. History shows us warnings about the military industrial complex and other concentrated power structures, and now we are seeing similar patterns emerge in the tech industry. The solution requires building technology from the ground up that empowers individuals and communities, focusing on basics like food production, energy generation, and local manufacturing rather than increasing dependence on centralized systems.6. The provenance and quality of information is becoming a critical challenge as AI systems become more sophisticated and reality itself becomes harder to verify. We are rapidly approaching a point where video calls and digital interactions will be indistinguishable from AI generated fakes, which is why figures like Sam Altman have invested in systems like Worldcoin to verify human identity. However, this verification capability should not be centralized in the hands of single companies. End to end encryption and quantum encryption technologies need to be preserved and expanded to allow humans to communicate and verify information peer to peer without centralized intermediaries who could manipulate or control the flow of information.7. The future of human computer interaction is evolving toward sentient loop systems where machines have sensory input, real time learning, context understanding, and continuous operation in service of human needs. Self driving cars represent the first widespread consumer facing example of this architecture, with onboard computers that must function independently while occasionally connecting to networks. The critical question is whether these systems will be aligned to benefit their human users like a caring mother as AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton suggests, or whether they will be controlled by centralized powers. The technologists building these systems have a responsibility to be benevolent and build structures that serve humanity rather than concentrate power, helping to create a future more like Star Trek than Terminator.
Thierry Weber revient sur les récentes préoccupations de Tim Berners-Lee concernant l'utilisation des données personnelles à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle. Selon lui, les modèles d'IA ajoutent une nouvelle couche au Web qui s'alimente massivement des informations publiées en ligne, souvent sans que les utilisateurs conservent un réel contrôle sur leurs données. Pour répondre à cet enjeu, Tim Berners-Lee a cofondé Inrupt, qui développe des outils permettant de filtrer et de protéger les informations personnelles avant leur transmission aux systèmes d'IA. Il déplore également l'absence d'un organisme de gouvernance comparable au World Wide Web Consortium pour encadrer le développement de l'intelligence artificielle. Au-delà des aspects techniques, cette réflexion relance le débat sur la souveraineté numérique et sur la place de l'individu dans un écosystème numérique de plus en plus dominé par les grandes plateformes technologiques.
This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests Bruce Schneier, chief of security architecture, Inrupt, and Chris Ray, field CTO, GigaOm. Missed the live show? Check it out on YouTube. Huge thanks to our sponsor, Guardsquare Mobile security incidents are no longer the exception—they are the norm. Last year, seventy-two percent of companies suffered a mobile app security incident. As the primary gateway to your APIs and data, your mobile app requires more than just basic encryption; it needs a multi-layered security strategy. Protect your brand and your bottom line with layered mobile app protection. Learn more at Guardsquare.com.
AI is changing many aspects of our lives, so it's reasonable to expect that it will impact democracy, too. The question is how? Two experts in technology and politics join us to discuss how we can harness AI's power to strengthen democracy. Yes, there will be deepfakes and automated misinformation, but there can also be greater opportunities for the government to serve people and for all of us to have a greater say in our systems of self governance.In their book Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders describe how AI could change political communication, the legislative process, bureaucracy, the judiciary, and more. It's a more hopeful argument than you might expect. They discuss how AI's broad capabilities can augment democratic processes and help citizens build consensus, express their voice, and shake up long-standing power structures. As they say in the interview, AI is just a tool; how we use it is up to us.Schneier is a security technologist and the New York Times bestselling author of 14 books, including A Hacker's Mind. He is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.Sanders is a data scientist focused on making policymaking more participatory. He has served in fellowships at the Massachusetts legislature and the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard University.Related EpisodesThe Problem(s) with Platforms (Cory Doctorow)Building Better Bureaucracy (Jennifer Pahlka)Laboratories of Restricting Democracy (Virginia Eubanks) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
All links and images can be found on CISO Series. Check out this post by Ross Haleliuk of Venture in Security for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank. Joining us is Davi Ottenheimer, vp, trust and digital ethics, Inrupt. In this episode: Network security isn't dying—it's evolving The observability layer that can't be replaced What's old is new again The innovation gap Huge thanks to our sponsor, HackerOne Discover how AI innovators like Adobe, Anthropic, and Snap are using AI to find and fix vulnerabilities across the software development lifecycle. HackerOne, the global leader in offensive security solutions, reveals all in the CISOs' guide to securing the future of AI. Download it now to see how AI can strengthen your security posture. Learn more at https://www.hackerone.com/
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . How should AI change democracy? That's the topic of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, and I am talking today with its authors. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the bestselling author of fourteen books, including Data and Goliath and A Hacker's Mind. He is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Nathan Sanders is a data scientist researching machine learning, astrophysics, public health, environmental justice, and more. He has served in fellowships and the Massachusetts legislature and the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard. He writes on AI and democracy in The New York Times and The Atlantic. We talk about this fascinating and scary intersection of AI and government, of AI being used in making legislation, the concept of democracy as an information system, ways AI can transform how citizens engage their governments, regulatory responses to AI from the US and around the world, and how the judicial branch can use AI. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.
Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. He created HTML and HTTP. It doesn't really get more foundational than that — Tim was there at the very very beginning of the modern internet. He also has a new memoir out called This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web. So Tim joined the show to talk about the state of the web, as well as his current work at the decentralization startup Inrupt, and, of course, where AI fits into the conversation. Links: This Is For Everyone | Macmillan The Semantic Web | W3C Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, now wants to save it | The New Yorker Why I gave the world wide web away for free | The Guardian Amazon, Perplexity kick off the great AI web browser fight | The Verge Web War III | The Verge Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline' | The Verge Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default | The Verge Subscribe to The Verge to access the ad-free version of Decoder! Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Link to episode page This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guests Davi Ottenheimer, vp, digital trust and ethics, Inrupt, and Rob Teel, Field CTO, GigaOm Thanks to our show sponsor, ThreatLocker Imagine having the power to decide exactly what runs in your IT environment — and blocking everything else by default. That's what ThreatLocker delivers. As a zero-trust endpoint protection platform, ThreatLocker fills the gaps traditional solutions leave behind, giving your business stronger security and control. Don't just react to threats — stop them with ThreatLocker. All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com
My conversation with Bruce begins at 33 mins in today after my headlines and clip show Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Learn more about my guest Bruce Schneier Buy his books! REWIRING DEMOCRACY: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998. I'm a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations. Join us Monday's and Thursday's at 8EST for our Bi Weekly Happy Hour Hangout's ! Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift
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All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap). Joining us is Davi Ottenheimer, vp, trust and digital ethics, Inrupt. Sir Tim Berners-Lee co-founded Inrupt to provide enterprise-grade software and services for the Solid Protocol. You can find their open positions here. In this episode: LLMs lack integrity controls A valid criticism Doubts in self-policing AI New tech, familiar problems Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Concentric AI Concentric AI's DSPM solution automates data security, protecting sensitive data in real-time. Our AI-driven solution identifies, classifies, and secures on-premises and cloud data to reduce risk across your enterprise. Seamlessly integrated with tools like Microsoft Copilot, Concentric AI empowers your team to innovate securely and maintain compliance all while eliminating manual data protection tasks. Ready to put RegEx and trainable classifiers in the rear view mirror? Contact Concentric AI today!
This episode is all about trying to figure out if TikTok - the video hosting platform owned by the Chinese company Byte Dance should be banned or not. Over 70% of young Americans use TikTok, which critics claim is spying on, manipulating, and spreading misinformation to its users. But is TikTok any different than Meta, Google, or X? Our guest's answer may surprise you… Really, no really! Bruce Schneier is a cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, who has been writing about security issues since 2004 and is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. IN THIS EPISODE: Surveillance as a business model is 100% legal. Breaking down the types of information companies are collecting, and what they're doing with it. Why does China want to know about our affinity for puppy videos? Social Media's ability to manipulate is greater than you might think. Russia and China's preferred platform for transmitting misinformation is…? (Spoiler Alert: It's not TikTok) Facebook has data on you… even if you aren't on Facebook-RnR! Data Privacy is a national security issue, but not treated like one. The European Union leads the world in protecting data privacy. The unsettling future of A.I. and personal data surveillance. Cougar hemorrhoids? Googleheim: What you are missing… if you're NOT on TikTok! *** FOLLOW BRUCE: Bruce's Blog: Schneier.com X: @schneierblog Facebook: Bruce Schneier *** FOLLOW REALLY NO REALLY: www.reallynoreally.com Instagram YouTube TikTok Facebook Threads XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. In principle, we can generally all agree that security theater is a waste of time for security teams. But the reality is that these are things that look good, so it can be hard to justify to non-technical leadership why you're eliminating something they see as secure. So how can we positively identify actual security theater practices and how do we communicate that to the rest of the organization? This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining me is our guest, Davi Ottenheimer, vp of trust and digital ethics, Inrupt. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Sysdig For businesses innovating in the cloud, every second counts. Sysdig strengthens cyber resilience by reducing the attack surface, detecting threats in real time, and accelerating incident response. Our platform correlates signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to enable businesses to prioritize risks and act decisively. Sysdig. Secure every second. In this episode: Is security theater a waste of time for security teams? Why can it be hard to justify to non-technical leadership why you're eliminating something they see as secure? How can we positively identify actual security theater practices and how do we communicate that to the rest of the organization?
Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Bruce Schneier says Artificial Intelligence has the potential to transform the democratic process in ways that could be good, bad, and potentially mind-boggling. The important thing, he says, will be to use regulation and other tools to make sure that AIs are working for us, and just not for Big Tech companies—a hard lesson we've already learned through our experience with social media. When ChatGPT and other generative AI tools were released to the public late last year, it was as if someone had opened the floodgates on a thousand urgent questions that just weeks before had mostly preoccupied academics, futurists, and science fiction writers. Now those questions are being asked by many of us—teachers, students, parents, politicians, bureaucrats, citizens, businesspeople, and workers. What can it do for us? What will it do to us? Will it take our jobs? How do we use it in a way that's both ethical and legal? And will it help or hurt our already-distressed democracy? Schneier, a public interest technologist, cryptographer, and internationally-known internet security specialist whose newsletter and blog are read by a quarter million people, says that AI's inexorable march into our lives and into our politics is likely to start with small changes, like AI helping write policy and legislation. The future, however, could hold possibilities that we have a hard time wrapping our current minds around—like AI entities creating political parties or autonomously fundraising and generating profits to back political candidates or causes. Overall, like a lot of other things. it's likely to be a mixed bag of the good and the bad.Bruce Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty affiliate at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at HKS, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. An internationally renowned security technologist, he has been called a "security guru" by the Economist and is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books—including A Hacker's Mind—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Public Affairs and Communications is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.PolicyCast is co-produced by Susan Hughes. Design and graphics support is provided by Lydia Rosenberg, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team.
Guests: Leah McLean, Vice President - Cybersecurity Specialist, Mastercard Data & Services [@Mastercard]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahrmclean/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/lmcleanDiana Kelley, Chief Security Officer / Chief Strategy Officer, CybrizeOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianakelleysecuritycurve/At RSAC | https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/diana-kelleyDavi Ottenheimer, VP Trust and Digital Ethics, Inrupt [@inrupt]At RSAC | https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/Davi%20Ottenheimer____________________________Host: Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak | https://itspm.ag/itspbcwebBrinqa | https://itspm.ag/brinqa-pmdpSandboxAQ | https://itspm.ag/sandboxaq-j2en____________________________Episode NotesIn this panel, we will explore the potential impact artificial intelligence technologies can have on the role of the security analyst and security operations. How can these technologies be used for:Education, training, skill development, and practice?Better protection, detection, response, and recovery?Program definition, planning, management, and measurement to create better results?Connect security operations to the business to drive better business outcomes?Given some of the controversy surrounding generative AI (ChatGPT), we will also explore the potential harms coming from the use of these technologies.____________________________For more RSAC Conference Coverage podcast and video episodes visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2023-rsac-san-francisco-usa-cybersecurity-event-coverageAre you interested in telling your story in connection with RSA Conference by sponsoring our coverage?
Guests: Leah McLean, Vice President - Cybersecurity Specialist, Mastercard Data & Services [@Mastercard]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahrmclean/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/lmcleanDiana Kelley, Chief Security Officer / Chief Strategy Officer, CybrizeOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianakelleysecuritycurve/At RSAC | https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/diana-kelleyDavi Ottenheimer, VP Trust and Digital Ethics, Inrupt [@inrupt]At RSAC | https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/Davi%20Ottenheimer____________________________Host: Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak | https://itspm.ag/itspbcwebBrinqa | https://itspm.ag/brinqa-pmdpSandboxAQ | https://itspm.ag/sandboxaq-j2en____________________________Episode NotesIn this panel, we will explore the potential impact artificial intelligence technologies can have on the role of the security analyst and security operations. How can these technologies be used for:Education, training, skill development, and practice?Better protection, detection, response, and recovery?Program definition, planning, management, and measurement to create better results?Connect security operations to the business to drive better business outcomes?Given some of the controversy surrounding generative AI (ChatGPT), we will also explore the potential harms coming from the use of these technologies.____________________________For more RSAC Conference Coverage podcast and video episodes visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2023-rsac-san-francisco-usa-cybersecurity-event-coverageAre you interested in telling your story in connection with RSA Conference by sponsoring our coverage?
Is the Future Secure? This week on The Futurists we get into the future of cybercrime and personal security in the smart world with renowned “security guru” Bruce Schneier. The author of over a dozen books (his latest bestseller being “A Hacker's Mind”), Lecturer on Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Congressional advisor and Media personality. Will AI and Quantum kill passwords? How secure will your DNA records be? The answers might surprise you About Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books—including his latest, A Hacker's Mind—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. Brett King is a world-renowned entrepreneur, futurist, speaker, international bestselling author, and media personality. China's President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in his 2018 national address; the same book that was listed as a Top 10 non-fiction book in North America. In 2019 his book Bank 4.0 was awarded the Top Book by a Foreign Author in Russia for that year. n and innovation. In his professional capacity, Mr. Tercek is a seasoned business executive with deep expertise in digital media and internet services. He is a prolific creator of interactive programs and products. He has designed and launched successful consumer experiences on every digital platform, including digital television, game consoles, broadband Internet, and mobile networks. In 2021, Mr. Tercek was recognized as the Humanitarian of the Year by the Media Excellence Awards for his leadership in designing and launching COVID SMART™, an interactive training program designed to keep workers safe on the job during the pandemic.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books — including his latest, A Hacker's Mind — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books — including his latest, A Hacker's Mind — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
Links from the show:* A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back* Visit Bruce's site* Follow Bruce on Twitter* Follow Ryan on Twitter* Support the showAbout my guest:Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books—including his latest, We Have Root—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe
The internet landscape is now disempowering for individuals, and its inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Inrupt CEO John Bruce share their visions for the future of the web.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Bruce Schneier is a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. He's been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, and in his monthly newsletter since 1998. He's a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company delivering Sir Tim Berners-Lee's (inventor of the World Wide Web) original vision of a web of shared benefit, for everyone. This microcast is a short version of our full interview with Schneier, which you can listen to at https://soundcloud.com/cybercrimemagazine/history-of-hacking-bruce-schneier-security-technologist-and-cryptographer
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including A Hacker's Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. Schneier on Security blog: https://www.schneier.com Cryto-Gram newsletter: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ About A Hacker's Mind: https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/
In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to A HACKER'S MIND author Bruce Schneier about how the powerful have learnt to hack society rules and why we need to learn to outhack the hackers.Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books—including his latest, A HACKER'S MIND —as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to A HACKER'S MIND author Bruce Schneier about how the powerful have learnt to hack society rules and why we need to learn to outhack the hackers. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books—including his latest, A HACKER'S MIND —as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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News: Human brain's spatial perception changes over time. BT announces creation of a drone superhighway in Southern England John Deere (in space) Artificial Intelligence model used to track beavers Senators question FCC's new broadband map FCC space bureau Inrupt announces updates to the W3 Personal Online Data Store “Solid Pod” Osm data model study Overture map foundation Events: GeoNight:The international "Night of Geography" hosted by the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe (EUGEO) and The International Geographical Union (IGU), April 14th 2023. 2023 Digital Construction Week: May 17-18, London, UK. The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG): May 28 - June 1, 2023, Orlando, FL
La World Wide Web nació como un poderoso mecanismo de comunicación, que con el transcurso evolutivo de la red digital, se ha visto afectada por la manipulación de la información; ahora Tim Berners Lee creador de la misma, con el apoyo de su fundación Inrupt, pondrán en marcha su proyecto Solid, dando origen de esta manera a una web distinta y libre.
Peggy Smedley and Bruce Schneier, chief of security architecture, Inrupt, talk all about cybersecurity. He says the state of cybersecurity is complicated—and it might not be as bad as most people thinks it is. They also discuss: How data is being bought and sold all the time. If the research on cybercrime rates are true. How a company can protect itself from cybercrime. schneier.com (11/29/22 - 799) IoT, Internet of Things, Peggy Smedley, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, digital transformation, cybersecurity, blockchain, 5G, cloud, sustainability, future of work, podcast, Bruce Schneier, Inrupt This episode is available on all major streaming platforms. If you enjoyed this segment, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.
Peggy Smedley and Bruce Schneier, chief of security architecture, Inrupt, talk all about cybersecurity. He says the state of cybersecurity is complicated—and it might not be as bad as most people thinks it is. They also discuss: How data is being bought and sold all the time. If the research on cybercrime rates are true. How a company can protect itself from cybercrime. schneier.com (11/29/22 - 799) IoT, Internet of Things, Peggy Smedley, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, digital transformation, cybersecurity, blockchain, 5G, cloud, sustainability, future of work, podcast, Bruce Schneier, Inrupt This episode is available on all major streaming platforms. If you enjoyed this segment, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.
I can't believe I've been doing this for 300 weeks - almost 6 years now! And returning for his 3rd "podcentennial" episode is world-renowned security guru Bruce Schneier! Today we'll discuss hacking - not just in the realm of computers, but in legal, political, social and economic spaces. And then we'll talk about how artificial intelligence and computer automation are starting to play a significant role in hacking all of these realms. Computers and AI expand the scope, scale and speed of hacking and we're honestly not prepared for it. To celebrate the 300th episode and the coming release of the 5th edition of my book, today I'm kicking off a big giveaway with lots of prizes and a killer promotion for patrons on Patreon! (See below for links.) Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned technologist and security guru. He is the author of over one dozen books, including his latest, A Hacker's Mind, due out in February, I believe. He has testified before Congress and has served on several government committees and corporate boards, written many seminal papers, has a very popular blog called Crypto-Gram, and last but not least, Bruce is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Further Info 300th episode promotion: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/enter-to-win-300th-podcast-giveaway/ Patron promotion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-patron-75151773 The Coming AI Hackers: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2021/04/the-coming-ai-hackers.html A Hacker's Mind book: https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/ Give the gift of security & privacy: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/give-the-gift-of-security-and-privacy/ Check out my Best & Worst Gifts Guide for 2022: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/best-worst-gifts-2022/ The Coming AI Hackers: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2021/04/the-coming-ai-hackers.html A Hacker's Mind book: https://www.schneier.com/books/a-hackers-mind/ The Trolley Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems Subscribe to the newsletter: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/newsletter/new-newsletter/ Check out my book, Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484261887 Become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/FirewallsDontStopDragons Donate directly with Monero! https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/contact/ Would you like me to speak to your group about security and/privacy? http://bit.ly/Firewalls-Speaker Generate secure passphrases! https://d20key.com/#/ Table of Contents Use these timestamps to jump to a particular section of the show. 0:00:31: Interview preview 0:02:29: Interview start 0:03:13: How does hacking differ from inventing or just cheating? 0:07:14: What is artificial intelligence and when will it be like teh sci-fi version? 0:11:32: Do we have to worry about AI replacing us or taking over? 0:13:57: Can we program human values into AI systems? 0:18:09: Why are reward and goal alignment so crucial for AI? 0:20:28: Will we ever implicitly trust AI if we can't explain its answers? 0:25:37: Do we put too much trust in some AI systems? 0:27:59: How might AI systems be used to hack financial or political systems? 0:33:26: Can we govern AI systems with human laws? 0:36:40: Are non-computer systems more susceptible to hacks due to uncodified norms? 0:42:41: Can AI think outside the box if it doesn't understand the box? 0:48:05: How does terrorism hack our brains and how do we prevent that? 0:53:35: What are some Utopian possibilities for AI? 0:55:08: How do we get more public interest technologists? 0:56:28: Interview wrap-up 0:58:19: 300th podcast giveaway! 1:01:49: Patron promotion!
Ethical hacking is essential in the tech world as it exposes the holes and bugs in systems before bad people can use them. This same mindset can be applied to the legal system in order to “hack” it before "black hat" hackers exploit the problems. In this episode, Dr. Bruce Schneier (full bio below) explains this philosophy and the steps to apply it.Topics:What are public-interest technologists? Hacking the legal systemPractical hackingThe Big Tech monopoly Survialence CapitalismWhat can the next generation do?What books have had an impact on Dr. SchneierWhat advice Dr. Schneier has for teenagersBruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter, Crypto-Gram, and blog, Schneier on Security, are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC andVerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.Socials! -Lessons from Interesting People substack: https://taylorbledsoe.substack.com/Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXk
This week we're talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He calls himself a “public-interest technologist”, a term he coined himself, and works at the intersection of security, technology, and people. Bruce has been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, his monthly newsletter has been going since 1998, he's a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of the EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Long story short, Bruce has credentials to back up his opinions and on today's show we dig into the state of cyber-security, security and privacy best practices, his thoughts on Bitcoin (and other crypto-currencies), Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project, and of course we asked Bruce to share his advice for today's developers building the software systems of tomorrow.
This week we're talking with Bruce Schneier — cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer (of many books). He calls himself a “public-interest technologist”, a term he coined himself, and works at the intersection of security, technology, and people. Bruce has been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, his monthly newsletter has been going since 1998, he's a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of the EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt. Long story short, Bruce has credentials to back up his opinions and on today's show we dig into the state of cyber-security, security and privacy best practices, his thoughts on Bitcoin (and other crypto-currencies), Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project, and of course we asked Bruce to share his advice for today's developers building the software systems of tomorrow.
All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series People violate cybersecurity policies at a rate of one out of every 20 job tasks. It's just a matter of time before all your employees are in violation. This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our guest is Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog), chief of security architecture, Inrupt and fellow and lecturer and Harvard Kennedy School. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, PlexTrac PlexTrac is a powerful, yet simple, cybersecurity platform that centralizes all security assessments, pentest reports, audit findings, and vulnerabilities. PlexTrac transforms the risk management lifecycle, allowing security professionals to generate better reports faster, aggregate and visualize analytics, and collaborate on remediation in real-time. Check out PlexTrac.com/CISOSeries to learn why PlexTrac is the perfect platform for CISOs! In this episode: Special tips for new CISOs just starting out and trying to establish their position. We examine where there are market forces fighting the most against achieving societal values in the digital space? What are signs that we're moving in the right direction of developing a digital social contract? And we ask, is "employees violating security policies" the top issue that needs to be resolved?
All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series A young woman is killing it in her first cybersecurity job out of college. Management is so thrilled with her that they want to give her a promotion. Problem is the promotion reveals a lot of other innerworkings that don't speak well of the company's culture. This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Davi Ottenheimer (@daviottenheimer), vp trust and digital ethics, Inrupt. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Code42 As the Insider Risk Management leader, Code42 helps security professionals protect corporate data and reduce insider risk while fostering an open and collaborative culture for employees. For security practitioners, it means speed to detection and response. For companies, it means a collaborative workforce that is productive and a business that is secure. Visit http://Code42.com/showme to learn more. In this episode: A student has some serious privacy concerns when they learn that "all data is being monitored and anonymously collected." We examine how we can break from the Internet Oligarchs who appear to be consuming, selling, and using so much of our data. How GDPR can benefit organizations to stay ahead of the competition. A young recruit facing imposter syndrome after receiving a promotion with added responsibilities.
Deze keer hebben we niet één, maar twee gasten over de vloer bij Radio Raccoons: Esther De Loof en Ruben Verborgh. Topic van de dag: Solid, een nieuwe technologie én ook een nieuwe manier om om te gaan met onze persoonlijke data. Veel potentieel, maar ook veel vragen. De antwoorden op die vragen krijg je in deze aflevering.Het SolidlandschapIn deze aflevering komen Esther De Loof, business development Europe bij Inrupt, en Ruben Verborgh, professor bij UGent en researcher bij imec, aan bod. Zij delen hun expertise over Solid. Ze zijn uiteraard geen twee willekeurige mensen, maar ze doen samen - en apart - een aantal interessante zaken.Van een ver verleden tot vandaagRuben en Esther kennen elkaar al een heel lange tijd. In een ver verleden stond Esther op de planken en deed Ruben daarvoor geluid en belichting. Fast forward naar 2015, wanneer ze samen begonnen te werken aan de universiteit. Dat klikte zodanig dat in het najaar van 2020 Ruben haar contacteerde om de dots te connecteren voor Solid in Vlaanderen. “Toen ben ik met de verschillende partijen beginnen babbelen, en ben ik terechtgekomen bij Inrupt, de start-up van Tim Berners-Lee,” volgens Esther. Die laatste ken je misschien beter als de uitvinder van het web en is nu ook - door het Solidinitiatief - heruitvinder van het web.Hoe Ruben van klankman naar professor decentralized web technologies ging? “Ik wilde eigenlijk rockster worden. Ik heb altijd die passie voor enerzijds muziek en anderzijds technologie gehad. Met een elektrische gitaar combineer je beiden. Maar gaandeweg werd het duidelijk dat mijn technologische passie - en talenten - groter was dan die andere,” volgens Ruben. De job die hij vandaag doet komt wel dichtbij die van een rockster: als onderzoeker reist hij de wereld rond om zijn boodschap over het world wide web te verkondigen.Ruben begon in 2010 aan de UGent en imec als onderzoeker webtechnologie (data op het web). Dat was de voorloper op wat nu vandaag Solid heet. Even een fast forward naar 2017: Ruben pikt de draad op met Tim Berners-Lee door hem te bezoeken in MIT en samen zijn ideeën rond Solid te bekijken. “Daar heb ik de Solid ideeën meegenomen naar Vlaanderen. Toen was dat nog een klein zaadje, maar dat klein zaadje heeft een heel goede voedingsbodem gevonden. Nu begint het een groot verhaal te worden op technologisch vlak, maar ook op een heel aantal andere vlakken.” De rest is geschiedenis. Eind 2020 kon Ruben het niet meer alleen. “Ik had mijn oude compagnon de route Esther nodig om contacten op te volgen, want uiteindelijk ben ik de computernerd en wil ik achter de knoppen zitten.”Naast zijn academische taken bij de UGent, heeft Ruben besloten om deels voor de industrie te werken omdat de vraag zodanig groot is. Hij adviseert bedrijven die aan Solid willen doen en Inrupt is daar één van.Solid, gedefinieerd“Solid is heel veel, maar laten we kijken naar een korte geschiedenis van het web,” begint Ruben. Berners-Lee heeft het web uitgevonden in de jaren ‘80 - ‘90 met de intentie om kennis makkelijker te laten verspreiden, over de grenzen van machines heen. Het kernidee daarvan was universaliteit. “Iedereen moet kennis kunnen consumeren ongeacht op welke manier het gepubliceerd is en ongeacht op welk toestel je wil gebruiken om de kennis te consumeren. Het probleem was toen dat kennis vaak bleef plakken aan machines in verschillende soorten en maten. Het web bracht een technologisch laagje om ervoor te zorgen dat informatie zich tussen machines heen wereldwijd kon verspreiden en dat al die informatie aan elkaar kon gelinkt worden.”Gaandeweg transformeerde het web van een technologische uitdaging naar universaliteit op een hoog niveau: Hoe kunnen we informatie in andere talen doorgeven? Hoe kunnen we informatie doorgeven aan mensen die niet visueel aan de slag kunnen, maar bijvoorbeeld in braille? Het werd ook meer dan enkel universaliteit. “Het web heeft ook de weg gevonden naar het commerciële: hoe kunnen we zaken verkopen? Uiteraard heeft het verhaal zich ontpopt naar een verhaal dat we allemaal wel kennen.”Rond de jaren 2000 lanceerden er veel nieuwe ideeën die voorheen niet mogelijk waren. Kijk naar eBay, waar je tweedehands spullen kon verkopen, of Amazon, koop wat je maar wil en laat het voor je deur leveren. “Een paar jaar later vormden zich totaal nieuwe paradigma's. Denk maar aan persoonlijke data die plots op het web stond en plots ook gebruikt werd voor zowel positieve als negatieve zaken. Verkiezingen beïnvloeden, reclame maken en mensen verleiden tot zaken die ze anders niet zouden doen... Het web is verwijderd geraakt van het originele idee dat Tim Berners-Lee had, namelijk, het moet voor iedereen werken,” vertelt Ruben. “Je moet bijvoorbeeld aanwezig zijn op Facebook, wat het idee van universaliteit in de weg staat.”“Het feit dat een klein clubje van bedrijven bepaalt hoe wij informatie consumeren, dat gaat volledig in tegen de geest van het world wide web en innovatie, want het idee was dat iedereen zich kon aansluiten en nieuwe ideeën kon uitwerken. Als je een paar gatekeepers krijgt, valt dat idee in duigen. Daarom is Tim Berners-Lee bezorgd. We moeten terug naar universaliteit, iedereen moet alles kunnen doen en de toestemmingsloze innovatie moet terugkomen.”De sleutel, volgens Berners-Lee, is persoonlijke data. “Als mensen terug controle geven over hun eigen data via persoonlijke datakluizen, dan zullen we weer in staat zijn om te innoveren op het web en terug constructieve uitwisselingen op het web te hebben. Vandaar dus Solid als the web reimagined*,*** maar dan anno 2022 en verder.”Solid in de praktijkHoe we dat gaan uitwerken in de praktijk? Esther geeft antwoord: “Momenteel is het businessmodel van veel bedrijven dat zij hun data niet willen delen, aangezien het een competitief voordeel is. Maar we hebben binnen Europa gemerkt dat zo'n model niet werkt voor ons. We kunnen niet op tegen bedrijven uit China en Amerika, dus we moeten heel het idee van die datalaag anders aanpakken, zodanig dat we meer kunnen innoveren.”Hoe gaan we die shift er laten komen? Dat is wat Inrupt probeert uit te zoeken op wereldwijd niveau door samen te werken met organisaties die een digital footprint hebben, denk aan overheden, grote bedrijven, ngo's, enzovoort. “We willen zo snel mogelijk dat er zoveel mogelijk mensen een persoonlijke datakluis hebben met daarin toch minstens al een deel van hun persoonlijke data.”Vlaanderen is daarin een echte koploper, wereldwijd. “Ik wil dat duidelijk zeggen want Vlamingen zijn wat bedeesder van aard, maar wat we hier in Vlaanderen hebben is een uniek iets. Een cocktail van verschillende partners,” volgens Esther. “SolidLab langs de ene kant als academische partner, daarnaast het Datanutsbedrijf van de overheid als neutrale speler die de markt in gang steekt, en dan een heel aantal bedrijven, waaronder ook Cronos, die kijken naar hoe we naar de markt kunnen met Solid. Die dynamiek van private bedrijven, de overheid, en academia is echt uniek.”Tim Berners-LeeDeevid is benieuwd naar de visie van Tim Berners-Lee en hoe hij actief is in het project. Volgens Ruben is hij actief op twee fronten. Enerzijds is hij bezig met de visie rond Solid. Waar moet het web naartoe? Waar kunnen we als wereld naartoe met een informatienetwerk? Langs de andere kant is Berners-Lee ook met het technische luik bezig, net zoals Ruben is hij een developer. “We zijn allebei redelijk geeky over dat soort zaken en zijn zo ook aan de praat geraakt. Ik had toevallig een zomer vrij en kon naar MIT komen en Tim was akkoord. Dat was een beetje een Trojaans paard: ik ging development doen, maar uiteindelijk zijn we aan de praat geraakt over de high-level visie rond Solid. Al snel werd duidelijk dat we samen aan de slag moesten.”Eigenlijk is Ruben pas op het einde van het onderzoeksproject bij het team van MIT binnengekomen. Toen hij toekwam, was het duidelijk dat de eerste laag van de onderzoekschallenges aangepakt waren. Het was tijd om te beginnen aan de andere, meer commerciële aspecten, waar Esther het eerder al over had. “Dat is wat ik wilde doen met mijn leven. Half toevallig is dat in Vlaanderen opgepikt en beginnen bloeien. Tim Berners-Lee komt vaak langs bij ons in Gent om aan Solid verder te werken, we halen inspiratie uit elkaar. We mogen dus echt wel trots zijn om wat we al bereikt hebben.”Technische standaard“In heel het verhaal is technologie de basiswaarde, maar ook alleen dat. Zonder technologie gaat het niet lukken, maar met alleen technologie ook niet.”Volgens Ruben moet je Solid bekijken als post-big data. Voor Solid was er de big datastroming waarbij men keek naar hoeveel data je op één plaats tesamen kan krijgen. Het antwoord daarop? Oneindig veel, technologisch gezien. Wat big data ons geleerd heeft, is dat er hoewel er geen technologische limieten zijn, er wel economische, sociale en ethische limieten zijn.“Eerlijk gezegd, vanuit technologisch oogpunt: big data is saai. Natuurlijk gaan er interessantere zaken gebeuren als je zoveel data op één plaats brengt, maar wat als dat niet kan? Wat als er dwingende reden zijn die niet technologisch zijn van aard, zoals GDPR, maar ook het competitieniveau. Het kost enorm veel geld om dat te gaan doen. Dataverzameling vertraagt innovatie.”Dat is ook het doel van Solid. In plaats van alle data op één systeem te verzamelen, krijgt iedereen een eigen datakluis. Daardoor krijg je in plaats van enkele zeer grote big datasets een heel groot aantal kleine datasets. “De toekomst, voor mij, bestaat uit heel veel kleine data,” volgens Ruben. “Iedereen krijgt dus een dataset, maar ook gebouwen, wagens, en zelfs slimme verkeerslichten kunnen zo'n kluis krijgen. Dan is de vraag: hoe ga je daarmee om? Technologisch is dat een gigantische puzzel om op te lossen. Big data is veel simpeler. Maar de filosofie achter het decentralizen is dat de voordelen zo belangrijk zijn, dat wij als technologen praktisch verplicht zijn om het op te lossen.”Als de technologen het dan kunnen oplossen, wat moeten we dan doen? Esther bekijkt het vanuit drie standpunten: Gebruiker → hoe voelt dat om een datakluis te hebben? We eindigen waarschijnlijk in een wereld waar we verschillende datakluizen hebben: een datakluis van de overheid, de bank, telecomprovider. Hoe ga je naar die datakluizen kijken? Je gaat waarschijnlijk een loskoppeling hebben tussen waar de data staat en hoe je naar de data kijkt via verschillende applicaties. Als eindgebruiker kan je dus een browser hebben met een overzicht van je verschillende kluizen, onafhankelijk van hoeveel dat er zijn of waar ze staan. Uiteindelijk heb je dan een geïntegreerde ervaring voor de eindgebruiker. Bedrijven en overheden → geven je een kluis en steken data in die kluis. Daar is het een kwestie van visionaire overheden en bedrijven vinden die weten dat als ze angstvallig vasthouden aan die hopen data, dat het niet meer werkt. Als bedrijf of overheid moet je dan bekijken wat het kan opleveren als je die data deelbaar maakt. Wat voor een businessmodel kan ik daarmee bouwen? Dat is het soort denkoefeningen dat Inrupt maakt met bedrijven. Developers → apps ontwikkelen bovenop die datalaag. Eens de datalaag bestaat, krijg je de situatie dat er heel veel data van personen bestaat, die je kan gebruiken om een bepaalde dienst te creëren. Consent - read the terms of agreementsHoe vermijden we dat we in een soortgelijke situatie als nu komen? “We gaan niemand overtuigen van Solid omdat je meer privacy en consent aanbiedt. Nobody cares. Some of us do, maar wij zijn de 1%. De meeste mensen geven er alleen om als het ook gemakkelijk is. Dus we gaan niemand overtuigen op basis van ideologische gronden, maar juist wél omdat het het leven beter maakt. Wat het leven niet beter maakt? Constant in dialoog gaan,” vertelt Ruben.De vergelijking met cookies is interessant. Cookies zijn een voorbeeld van wetgeving die het omgekeerde effect heeft gehad. De Nederlandse kunstenares Julia Jansen gaf bijvoorbeeld een boek uit van 900 pagina's lang, gevuld met alle terms and conditions waarmee je akkoord gaat als je op een bepaalde website op het knopje klikt. “Niemand begrijpt dat, zelfs de meest gespecialiseerde jurist geraakt er niet aan uit. Los daarvan, waar de cookievensters werken voor de websites die toestemming vragen, gaat een datakluis werken voor jou. Ook de ervaring die je krijgt, kan er anders uitzien voor andere mensen. Dat is het verschil tussen controle en consent. Bij consent ga je het misschien niet altijd begrijpen, dat zijn dialoogvensters die anderen maken. Bij controle ga je zelf beslissen. Het kan ook zijn dat je bij controle net geen keuze wil maken. Bijvoorbeeld: ‘bij elke kledingwinkel mag je mijn schoenmaat tonen, maar als er financiële vragen gesteld worden, wil ik het wel zien'. Je gaat dus de keuze maken afhankelijk van jouw geprefereerd gebruik.”Als gebruiker kan je ook beslissen om de controle gedeeltelijk door te geven, bijvoorbeeld bij vragen over medische data. Stel dat een potentiële verzekeraar toegang wil tot die data, en je kent er eigenlijk niets van, dan kan je die controle geven aan je huisarts. “Controle is een sterker en flexibeler concept dan consent. Én het geeft een betere ervaring,” vertelt Ruben.“Ik denk dat Solid een heel goede implementatie is voor het idee dat achter GDPR zat,” vertelt Esther. “Niemand ligt er wakker van, maar vooral omdat we geen goede tool om er effectief iets mee te doen. Het goede hier is: de overheden en grote organisaties liggen er van wakker dat ze met een integere manier met je data omgaan. Solid geeft hun de kans om dat op een actionable manier naar de eindgebruiker te brengen.”Esther neemt de vergelijking nog verder. “Typisch bij cookies is dat je op één moment controle hebt en daarna eigenlijk niet meer. Bij Solid kan je dat moment stretchen in de tijd. Je hebt controle de eerste keer dat je data deelt, je kan dat op een gestructureerde manier doen, maar nog belangrijker: je kan op elk moment je consent intrekken op een veel intuïtievere manier. Dat is wat het echt is om controle te hebben,” vertelt ze.Ruben pikt daar verder op in: “De reden waarom wij over privacy praten is omdat het een eenzijdig verhaal is. Grote bedrijven weten dat het een straatje is dat doodloopt. Je kan geen oplossing vinden voor privacy. Privacy is een verhaal waar de consument en bedrijven tegen elkaar worden opgezet. De bedrijven zijn evil, ze willen zoveel mogelijk data verzamelen en arme mensen geraken die data kwijt. Maar: bedrijven liggen daar van wakker. Ze hebben door dat het vandaag geen zin meer heeft om zoveel data te verzamelen. Dat is een enorme verantwoordelijkheid, legaal gezien.”Bedrijven zien zich vandaag genoodzaakt om data te verzamelen omdat ze data nodig hebben om te innoveren, maar eigenlijk doen ze dat liever niet, vertelt Ruben. Dat probleem lost Solid op, want bedrijven hoeven geen data meer te verzamelen. In dat systeem leveren mensen zelf data, en als bedrijven die bepaalde data nodig hebben, kunnen mensen hun consent geven als ze dat zelf wensen. “We laten data beter stromen, maar onder controle van mensen.”De grote spelersWe kunnen niet om een paar grote spelers in het internetlandschap. Hoe gaan we om met zo'n bedrijven? Volgens Ruben ligt dat anders dan we denken. “Wij hebben Facebook, Google, en andere grote bedrijven niet nodig in dit verhaal. De data die op Facebook staat is in de eerste plaats vooral nuttig voor adverteerders, maar niet erg nuttig voor mij. Laat ze maar verzamelen. Dat is data die niet werkt voor mij, en zelfs als ze werkt voor mij, kan ik die data er ook uithalen,” vertelt Ruben. “Ze weten wel wat mijn likes en vrienden zijn, wat nuttig is voor advertenties. Wat ze niet weten, is wat ik vorige week in de Delhaize kocht, wat ook nuttige data is om voor mij te laten werken.”Als we kijken naar de eerste use cases rond Solid, zien we eigenlijk vooral cases rond data die Facebook ook niet heeft. Solid hangt dus niet af van zo'n bedrijven en staat er dus ook niet mee in competitie. “Die bedrijven zijn in essentie verkopers van advertenties. Dat werkt voor andere partijen, maar niet voor mij. Solid is data die voor mij werkt.”“Met Solid kunnen we ook sociale interacties doen op een sociale en ethische manier, maar dat is niet ons doel. We willen geen vervanger voor Facebook maken. We kijken naar wereldwijde innovatieproblemen over een gebrek aan data die niet goed stroomt. Als we in passant zulke problemen kunnen oplossen, perfect, maar het is onze driver niet,” sluit Ruben de vergelijking af.De toekomst van Solid? Zo onzeker als toen Berners-Lee het internet initieel bouwde in 1988, volgens Esther. “Waarschijnlijk kunnen we op dit moment helemaal niet inschatten waar we binnen tien jaar staan met Solid. We weten totaal nog niet wat voor socialemediaervaringen mogelijk kunnen zijn.” Esther ziet het nu als een idee van loskoppeling: data en apps loskoppelen van elkaar met als doel tailored apps te maken voor verschillende doelgroepen.“Kijk naar Facebook bijvoorbeeld: de app wordt vooral gebruikt door kleinkinderen en grootouders om elkaars foto's te zien, maar het platform is helemaal niet gemaakt voor kleine kinderen en oudere mensen. Toch zijn mensen geforceerd om het op die manier te doen, want het is de enige manier. Solid kan daar verandering in brengen,” vertelt Esther. Zo kan iedereen een verschillende app gebruiken, met elk zijn socialemediaervaring, bovenop de datalaag van kluizen. “Jij kan mijn foto's zien met een app die meer bij jou past, en ik kan jouw foto's zien met een app die meer bij mij past.”Blockchain vs. SolidDeevid vraagt zich af waarom we Blockchain en Solid niet met elkaar mogen verwarren. Of hebben ze toch iets met elkaar gemeen? Ruben legt uit: “Wat ze gemeenschappelijk hebben, is dat ze beide gedecentraliseerd zijn. Zowel blockchain als Solid willen dingen doen zonder een centrale speler nodig te hebben. Simpel gezegd: we willen met elkaar foto's delen zonder Facebook in het midden te hebben.”Tot zo ver de vergelijking, want er zijn ook heel wat verschillen, vooral de doelstellingen. Bij blockchain gaat men zonder centrale speler het eens worden over dezelfde waarheid. “Het gaat om transacties waar iedereen een kopie heeft van het transactieregister. We zijn het allemaal eens over dezelfde waarheid.” Daartegenover staat Solid, waar we zonder centrale speler onze eigen data bijhouden. “Het gaat net om allemaal verschillende data in plaats van dat iedereen dezelfde kopie heeft. Daarnaast zijn er veel meer use cases voor persoonlijke data zonder centrale mediator dan voor blockchain. Er zijn veel minder blockchain cases dan de hype ons vandaag doet geloven.”Deevid kan zich use cases voorstellen waar we de gebruiker niet zomaar willen toelaten om zaken in die persoonlijke data te veranderen, denk maar aan je rijksregisternummer of je strafblad. “Wel, dat is het grootste verschil met blockchain,” legt Esther uit. “Eens het in de chain zit, kan je er niet aan prutsen zonder dat iedereen het weet. Solid is heel anders: sommige dataelementen in je Solid pod moet je kunnen aanpassen. Als je favoriete kleur vandaag rood is, en morgen is dat blauw, moet je dat kunnen aanpassen en kan niemand je tegenhouden.” Maar wat als dat nu om essentiële informatie gaat? Hoe ze dat precies gaan aanpakken in een Solidecosysteem, dat is wat ze vandaag testen in Vlaanderen, door bijvoorbeeld een label te geven van een authentieke bron.Ruben vult aan: “Dat kan bijvoorbeeld opgelost worden met digitale handtekeningen. Als de overheid ‘ja' zegt, dan klopt het. Hier zie je ook dat blockchain niet nuttig zou zijn: als de overheid zegt dat het een bepaalde dag is, dan maakt het niet uit of alle andere mensen ook zeggen dat het klopt. Je hebt daar geen consensus over nodig.”Artificial intelligenceDeevid bedenkt zich - als AI man - dat als je toestemming geeft aan een bedrijf om je data te gebruiken voor een AI model, en je bedenkt je, dat de data al in het model zit en verwerkt is. Wat dan? Ruben antwoordt: “Alles waar we over spreken, is artificial intelligence. We moeten het breder zien dan alleen machine learning.”Ruben legt uit dat er binnen AI twee stromingen zijn: White box: een intelligent systeem dat kan uitleggen waarom het beslissingen neemt. Die logica is nodig voor consent en bewijsbaarheid. Black box: kan niet uitleggen waarom, maar het doet wel spectaculaire dingen. Bijvoorbeeld gezichtsherkenningsalgoritmes kan in een foto van duizend mensen één persoon herkennen. Het is krachtiger, maar ook onzekerder. Wat als we Solid ook gebruiken voor die black box-omgeving? “Daar is innovatie voor nodig. Heel veel van machine learning is geënt op big data technologie. Er is nog onderzoek nodig om dat soort zaken te doen, en daarvoor kan federated machine learning nuttig zijn, waar we data in stukken aanleveren en dus ook makkelijker in en uithalen,” vertelt Ruben.Terugkoppelend naar consent: niemand kan 100% begrijpen wat het black box-systeem doet met data, per definitie. “Daar zijn veel legale vragen die we nog moeten oplossen.”Vlaamse overheidBinnen de Vlaamse overheid zitten er momenteel veel zaken in de pipeline, vertelt Esther. Momenteel zijn er bijvoorbeeld volgende doelstellingen bij een opkomend datanutsbedrijf: Elke burger moet over een Solid pod kunnen beschikken Een aantal goede use cases vinden en naar de markt brengen om te tonen wat het potentieel van Solid is, zowel vanuit het perspectief van de burger als dat van bedrijven Wat betekent zo'n datanutsbedrijf nu? “Elke samenleving kan maar draaiende blijven zolang de infrastructuur van de samenleving werkt. Dat kan gaan over waterwegen, snelwegen, en spoorwegen, maar ook data is nu een cruciaal iets. Het is een basisstructuur die in orde moet zijn,” vertelt Esther.Ruben haalt Telenet in de jaren ‘90 als voorbeeld aan. “De overheid gaf de impuls om Telenet op te richten. Er was geen enkel privébedrijf dat investeringen wilde doen om glasvezel in de grond te steken. De reden waarom de overheid toen geïnvesteerd heeft was niet louter om mensen internet te geven, maar omdat er een nieuwe economie in aantocht was. We moesten daarin kunnen meedoen,” legt Ruben uit. “Nu gebeurt eigenlijk hetzelfde. Er komt een nieuwe dataeconomie aan en we moeten meegaan in die stroom. Daarvoor hebben we datakluizen nodig. Het doel is niet die kluis op zich, maar de innovatie die mogelijk wordt als de juiste infrastructuur aanwezig is, dus het datanutsbedrijf zal nu die investeringen doen om het dan op langere termijn over te laten aan de markt.”“Het datanutsbedrijf neemt eigenlijk een aantal drempels weg en creëert die markt. Het grote doel is data laten stromen,” sluit Esther af.ToekomstHet is lastig om de toekomst te voorspellen, maar we laten het Esther en Ruben toch problemen. Ruben start: “Ik denk dat dingen gemakkelijker gaan worden. Er zijn vandaag veel handelingen die we - onnodig - moeten doen met betrekking tot het verhuizen van data. Ik denk dat die later veel naadlozer over zullen gaan in elkaar. Eerlijk gezegd, hoe het er precies uitziet, dat weet ik ook niet, maar ik beeld me een wereld in waar ik veel minder moet nadenken over in welke silo's ik zaken moet doen. Ik denk dat we van hokjesdenken evolueren naar een meer immersive manier van zaken doen.”Esther's visie? “Het is moeilijk om de toekomst te voorspellen, maar er zijn wel een aantal principes waar we willen aan vasthouden. Als je je data zelf in handen hebt, is het makkelijker om diensten te krijgen die op eigen maat zijn. We moeten goed nadenken over hoe we dat willen doen, maar we willen ook geen Black Mirror aflevering creëren. Hoe gaan we de gebruikerservaring zodanig maken dat het tailored is zonder dat het voelt alsof er ingebroken wordt op privacy?” Esther kan zich voorstellen dat het heel indringend is als je bepaalde reclames op maat ziet en wil dat gevoel omdraaien zodat het niet meer intrusief voelt. “Als ik een app zou hebben die mij assisteert bij reizen, en weet wat mijn smaak is qua eten, die dan voorstelt om bij een Mexicaans restaurant te eten... Dat is comfortabel en niet creepy.”SolidLabLangs de ene kant heb je een uitvoerende poot rond Solid in Vlaanderen, dat is het Datanutsbedrijf dat praktisch nadenkt over wat bedrijven moeten doen. “Langs de andere kant moeten we beseffen dat we er nog niet helemaal zijn. Solid is een nieuwe technologie met nieuwe ideeën en nieuwe modellen. SolidLab is de pijler waarin de overheid investeert om onderzoek te voeren om het gat dicht te maken.”SolidLab gaat concreet enkele uitdagingen helpen wegnemen: technologische uitdagingen socio-economische vraagstukken legale vraagstukken “SolidLab wil die vraagstukken voor zijn en uitdagingen wegnemen zodanig dat wanneer het datanutsbedrijf klaar staat met bedrijven om te beginnen innoveren, de eerste struikelblokken al weg zijn,” sluit Ruben af.Solid community VlaanderenAlle bedrijven die rond Solid werken, zitten samen in een Solid Community die ééns per maand samenkomt. 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En este episodio de Noches de Blogging, titulado ¿Tiene remedio Internet?, José Luis Orihuela @JLori entrevista a Carlos Scolari @cscolari. Emisión original: 1/12/2020 Libros de Carlos Scolari https://modernclicks.wordpress.com/textos/ Un avance del libro "Cultura Snack" https://hipermediaciones.com/2020/10/22/cultura-snack-lo-bueno-si-breve/ El documental de ficción "El dilema de las redes" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/81254224 La serie "Black Mirror" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/70264888 El libro "La era del capitalismo de la vigilancia" de Shoshana Zuboff https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-la-era-del-capitalismo-de-la-vigilancia/311701 La actualización del Manifiesto Cluetrain: "Nuevas claves" https://newclues.cluetrain.com/ El "Manifiesto de la comunicación no hostil" (PDF) https://paroleostili.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SPAGNOLO_A4_verticale.pdf El libro "Being Digital" de Nicholas Negroponte https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/120521/being-digital-by-nicholas-negroponte/ Los proyectos "Solid" e "Inrupt" impulsados por Tim Berners-Lee https://solidproject.org/ https://inrupt.com/ La plataforma china de videos "Bilibili" https://www.bilibili.com/ Las nuevas interfaces https://hipermediaciones.com/2020/08/08/las-nuevas-interfaces-pospandemia/ El libro "Internet, la imprenta del siglo XXI" https://amzn.to/3fXXl6t La película interactiva "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" https://www.netflix.com/es/title/80988062 Mapa de los Homenajes a Maradona en Twitter https://twitter.com/TwitterLatAm/status/1331661101524717575
Bruce Schneier is a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. He's been writing about security issues on his blog since 2004, and in his monthly newsletter since 1998. He's a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc., the company delivering Sir Tim Berners-Lee's (inventor of the World Wide Web) original vision of a web of shared benefit, for everyone. Story in Cybercrime Magazine: https://cybersecurityventures.com/lockpicking-is-not-a-crime-unless-youre-a-burglar/
Davi joins us to discuss how the Internet has evolved since its creation. We also dive into the issues with Facebook, and why everyone needs to deactivate their social media accounts. Interview with Davi Ottenheimer, Lead Security at Inrupt. You can check out his blog here: https://bit.ly/3Ks00nM This episode is brought to you by EthicsGrade, an ESG Ratings agency with a particular focus on Technology Governance, especially AI Ethics. You can find more information about EthicsGrade here: https://www.ethicsgrade.io/ You can also follow EthicsGrade on Twitter (@EthicsGrade) and LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2JCiQOg Connect with Us: Join our Slack channel for more conversation about the big ethics issues that rise from AI: https://bit.ly/3jVdNov Follow Are You A Robot? on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @AreYouARobotPod Follow our LinkedIn page: https://bit.ly/3gqzbSw Check out our website: https://www.areyouarobot.co.uk/ Resources: Interview with Robbie Stamp: https://bit.ly/3qIPVLj “The Three-Body People” https://bit.ly/33UYaLi Mark Zuckerberg's interview: https://bit.ly/3cHkUj5 Davi's blog: https://bit.ly/3rD7sno
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on December 8 outlining a multi-billion-dollar plan for the federal government to achieve ‘net zero' by 2050, The Verge reports. Under the plan, the US government will switch to electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings, and use the power of the government to shift to cleaner forms of electricity. The government will stop purchasing petrol-powered passenger cars in 2027 but would only achieve 100 percent electric vehicle purchases by 2035. Biden's order will direct the government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by the end of the decade before reaching full carbon neutrality by 2050. Amazon has been fined € 1.13 billion ($1.28 billion) by Italy's anti-trust regulator, CNBC reports. The Italian competition regulator, AGCM, has found that Amazon abused its market dominance by promoting its own logistics service, called Fulfilment Amazon. It claimed businesses had to use the FBA service to access benefits such as selling products with Prime delivery and participation in Black Friday sales. Amazon said, it "strongly disagrees" with the decision, and would appeal. Instagram's chief Adam Mosseri has called on US lawmakers to help regulate the platform, at a Senate hearing on December 8, which examined the harmful impact of social media on the mental health of teen users, BBC reports. Mosseri argued that Instagram is actively working to address the app's negative effects. However, he called for the creation of industry-wide regulations to police how social media platforms can operate. Inrupt, a startup co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee—widely credited as the leading figure in the creation of the internet—has raised about $30 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch reports. Forte Ventures led Inrupt's new round, the two said on Thursday, but both declined to disclose the size of the deal. The round saw participation from all existing investors, including Akamai Technologies and Glasswing Ventures, as well as new investors Allstate and the Minderoo Foundation's Frontier Technology Initiative. At Inrupt, Berners-Lee, the creator of the standards of the world wide web, and co-founder John Bruce are attempting to “reshape the internet” by building a platform that gives users control of their data. Miro, a visuals-based collaboration software maker, is seeking $17 billion in a new round of venture capital funding, Financial Times reports. The 10-year old startup describes itself as an online whiteboard platform for team collaboration. Miro's ‘infinite canvas' enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, and brainstorm ideas. Miro claims 25 million users worldwide, including more than 100,000 enterprise customers and 95 percent of the world's 100 biggest companies. Miro was founded by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011. Meanwhile, Pleo, a Danish startup that makes expense management tools aimed at SMBs, has raised $200 million in fresh funding that doubles its value to $4.7 billion, TechCrunch reports. Jeppe Rindom, Pleo's co-founder and CEO, said it will use the money for acquisitions, accelerating expansion to new markets, adding more functionality to its product. Pleo helps SMBs issue company cards and better manage how employees spend money. Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for 2022, Dezeen magazine reports. Awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and personally approved by the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal celebrates those who have shaped the "advancement of architecture”. Doshi was selected in recognition of his 70-year career and his influence on the direction of architecture in India.
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers.
Today, we have the great pleasure of chatting with Rudina Seseri, Founder of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI-powered software companies. With over 17 years of investing and related experience, Rudina has led investments in companies such as Celtra, Crowdtwist, ChaosSearch, Plannuh, Reprise, Inrupt, and Zylotech (recently acquired by Terminus).Prior to moving into venture capital, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation and started her career as an investment banker at Credit Suisse. Rudina was appointed by the Dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) for four consecutive years to serve as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Business School and has most recently been named to the HBS inaugural group of Rock Venture Capital Partners. Get on the email list at ventureunlocked.substack.com
Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” talks to Davi Ottenheimer VP, Trust, and Digital Ethics Technologist, Inrupt. We discuss our lack of preparedness for the future of AI and technology, ethics inAI, AI errors have no redress, correct balance between law and technology, difficulty in crafting a US Federal Data Privacy law, individual agency with identity rights, AI bias and inference, the concept of digital slavery, the privacy vs security debate, and his hopes for Data Privacy in the future.
This podcast, introduced by Jared Keller of the ODI, explores two questions: why is it important for organisations to empower people to play a more active role in deciding what happens to their data? And second, which system of decision making is best - individual, collective or delegated? Three guests, Julian Tait from Open Data Manchester, Anouk Ruhaak from Mozilla Foundation and Emmett Townsend from Inrupt talk about their own organisations and the challenges and benefits of each approach, before opening out a wider discussion around issues of personal consent, legislation and making such initiatives successful and sustainable. If you are interested in discussing the different types of data institutions and issues of consent around data institutions please get in touch with the team.
Today we are talking to Tim Berners-Lee: the inventor of the World Wide Web and CTO at Inrupt, and John Bruce: the CEO at Inrupt. We discuss how Inrupt is building a new layer on the Web called Solid. How Solid's unique API significantly reduces the need for back-end development, and how Solid gives users control over their personal data. All of this, right here, right now on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Inrupt and Solid, check them out at https://inrupt.com
Smellicopter (drone with moth antennae), adjusting Windows 10 time zone, setting up a Youtube channel with iPhone (sound, lighting, greenscreen, iMovie, FilmiC Pro, playlists, monitizing, and more), cleaning malware infected laptop, Profiles in IT (John Mauchly, creator of ENIAC computer), Observations from the Bunker (need to revoke Section 230 of Communications Decency Act), Mistake of the Week (lost Bitcoin password, $220M loss), Elon Musk recommends Signal Messaging (and dropping WhatsApp), Tim Berners Lee addresses Internet privacy (launched Inrupt with Personal Online Data Stores), MIT professor charged with conspiring with Chineses, and Wikipedia turns twenty (55M articles, 309 languages, 15B daily views). This show originally aired on Saturday, January 16 2021, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).
Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations and governments to build applications that put users in control of their data. Berners-Lee has always believed that the web should be free and open, but large organizations have grown up […]
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, it was intended for everyone. Now it is dominated by a few tech companies who have accumulated huge amounts of data on its users. So Tim decided to make a change. He launched Solid, an open source platform, built to decentralise the web and give citizens more power over their data. Alongside this, a new business called Inrupt was created to design and deliver new services from this technology. VP for Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, Davi Ottenheimer, joins Damian Collins this week. Dr Charles Kriel unpacks the new Twitter-like platform for conservatives, Parler.
Bruce Schneier puts his name behind Solid, Firefox starts to roll out DNS over HTTPS as default, and Microsoft's Linux first device ships to customers. Plus a birthday gift to Raspberry Pi users, Collabora comes to mobile, and more.
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On this week's show: SPLIGOSH @Spligosh on Twitter, and an occasional guest on Bart Buschotts' Let's Talk Apple THE BIG CHINESE HACK STORY The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, and the Chinese Government – Bloomberg Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials – Ars Technica Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story – BuzzFeed Department of Homeland Security Has 'No Reason to Doubt' Apple's Denial of Supply Chain Compromise – MacRumors UK cyber security agency backs Apple and Amazon denials over Chinese hacking – The Telegraph Simon's personal take: someone is totally off whack here... Personally I think the Bloomberg story smacks of FUD... Not one named source, not one “on the record” comment, not one piece of hard evidence. The whole thing smacks of Manchurian Candidate, reds under the bed, cold war era, conspiracy hysteria aimed at giving us all the heeby jeebies about China to me.. I don't believe such a hardware hack is impossible, but it would be highly difficult to do and would have to be snuck in to the design very very early (you can't just plug such a thing into a board like a piece of Lego). I am pretty sure that there would be much easier ways to exfiltrate data than via this almost James Bondian sort of plot. Security researcher named in China spy chip story voices doubts – Cult of Mac APPLE Well I have discovered a massive downside to Apple News on the Mac… Any links that are from Apple News only open in Apple News… and there seems to be no way to get to the original content - unlike on iOS where you can share out to Safari… pasting the link into Safari just offers to open it in Apple News (Cancel or Allow). The app can't be modified or removed so now I'm forced onto a 3rd party browser to get the original - which is basically a poor experience.. I want it to work like on iOS… it brings you news and if you want to open the original you can. It NEEDS an open in Safari button! Feedback sent to Apple!!! Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at European Data Protection Conference in Brussels Later This Month – MacRumors Cook will give the keynote speech at "Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven Life," a public session of the conference set to take place on Wednesday Open Season on Apple: Bloomberg and Others Take Aim – iPad Insight Apple Loop: iPhone XS Fights Serious Problems, Apple Leaks AirPods 2, Tim Cook's Arrogant Silence – Forbes Magazine Apple tops Interbrand's Best Global Brands list for sixth year running – AppleInsider Apple's A12 Bionic Chip Is Almost As Fast As "Best Desktop CPUs": AnandTech – Fossbytes iOS 12 now installed on 50% of active devices, outpacing iOS 11 adoption – 9to5 Mac SECURITY Apple and Facebook among tech firms lobbying against Australia's encrypted data law – CNBC New Zealand to order tourists to hand over phone password at border – The Independent A Recent Startup Breach Exposed Billions of Data Points – Wired TECHNOLOGY Interest surges in Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt, a startup out to remake the web – CNET Microsoft pulls the Windows 10 October 2018 Update as it investigates user files going missing – Windows Central Hyperloop company unveils its full-scale 750-mph 'passenger capsule' – USA Today JUST A SNIPPET For things that are not worth more than a flypast Banksy artwork shreds itself after £1m sale at Sotheby's – BBC News WORTH-A-CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS NightOwl - toggle macOS Mojave's dark mode. 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