RE: [projectvrm] digital-footprints-the-journey-from-business-intelligence-to-analytics

["T.Rob" < >]

Here is the response I posted...

Don't be fooled. It very much *is* about privacy. When surveillance was
based on atoms, Newtonian physics limited the amount and nature of
information about you that could be collected without your knowledge.
Because it was expensive, deep surveillance was only practical against
selected, high value targets. But today your bit trail can be collected
continuously, with extremely fine granularity, correlated to your physical
offline activities, stored indefinitely, and all at an incremental
per-person cost of near zero.  Anyone who believes this is a difference in
degree rather than a difference in kind is deluded.  

We never developed the legal and policy frameworks to deal with panoptical
surveillance because it has never been possible - up to now.  We ABSOLUTELY
need to reconsider our legal and policy frameworks in light of the new
digital capabilities.  Furthermore, time is of the essence because each new
digital intrusion into our private lives establishes a precedent that will
be extremely difficult to roll back later.

Unfortunately, we are more likely to ignore these aspects until the
consequences are so harmful that they can no longer be convincingly denied.
This idea that privacy concerns are overblown is the red herring and it's
starting to stink up the server room.

...please feel free to "like" the VRM-friendly replies so they show up in
the "Popular" tab.  Currently, you have to click on "Newest" just to see
mine or Tony's.

-- T.Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Pasquale 
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:27 AM
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> Subject: [projectvrm] digital-footprints-the-journey-from-business-
> intelligence-to-analytics
> 
> Anyone up to replying to this one after all it is Geoffery Moore and that
> is all I'm going to say.
> 
> http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131111183317-110300724-
> digital-footprints-the-journey-from-business-intelligence-to-analytics