RetailNext and Prism Skylabs offer tools for retailers to learn from their customer movements. RetailNext is prominently present in the world's Top 10 of most innovative companies in Big Data and offers in-store analytics based on analysing sensors and images of security cameras. Prism Skylabs has a more basic offering with its product. Can showrooming be stopped?Have you ever … [Read more...] about New And Profitable Insights With Tracking Customer Movements
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Big Data and Big Brother, What’s the Big Deal?
Big Data and Big Brother: Can Security and Privacy Go Hand In Hand, or Does it Even Matter? So it seems that all of those conspiracy theorists were right! The US government IS spying on everyone. Can you believe it? They're taking all of your personal info and using it for their own purposes. Unheard of, right? The NSA currently has access to personal information, phone … [Read more...] about Big Data and Big Brother, What’s the Big Deal?
Why Big Data Privacy Will Be Self-Regulating
Technological progress has always led to heated debates about the threats a new technology would pose for society and humanity. When in the 15<sup>th</sup> century printing press was invented, monks viewed easily available books that were unapproved by the church as a threat to their control over learning. The respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, feared that … [Read more...] about Why Big Data Privacy Will Be Self-Regulating
In The World of Big Data, Nothing Is For Free
Big data is everywhere and more and more products are getting sensors and collect data. Thanks to the quantified-self movement, there are so many (free) apps that collect a lot of information of users. However, in the world of Big Data nothing is for free. Free products or services that are offered to users are paid for with data and it is unclear who owns that data from then … [Read more...] about In The World of Big Data, Nothing Is For Free
Big Data Ethics: 4 Guidelines To Follow By Organisations
The possibilities of Big Data are enormous, but moving into the Big Data era carelessly will have massive ethical and privacy impacts. We should master the technology and not the other way around. The goal is to develop better ways how to use the unprecedented computing power to our advantage without intruding on our privacy or ethical standards. In this post I would like to … [Read more...] about Big Data Ethics: 4 Guidelines To Follow By Organisations
