October 14, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

No, young shoppers do not want to pay with chip in skin

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 14, 2006in Mobility, Privacy1 Comment

One of my pet peeves is the misuse of statistics in reporting. Here's an example that happens to intersect with issues of privacy. The Daily Mail is featuring a story titled "Young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin",…

Microsoft Collects Petabytes of (Personal?) Data

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 14, 2006in Privacy2 Comments

In a New York Times article about the massive de-bugging effort Microsoft is undertaking to get their new Vista operating system released on time, mention is made that 450,000 users are testing the software, and that their computers are sending…