I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.
