(Update May 2019.) Publishing this article was part of what started my recent investigation into Facebook’s cybersecurity and privacy practices. The outcome of that investigation means that I do not have any hopeful or positive things to say regarding Facebook and I believe that I was… and we all were, naive. I no longer hold […]
Category: Tech Policy
The Federal Government Recommends JSON
It is the policy of many governments to support transparency with the release of Open Data. But few understand how important it is that this Open Data be released in machine-readable openly available formats. I have already written a lengthly blog post about how most of the time, the CSV standard is the right data […]
My political bias
I think, when one starts to write what could be a politically explosive blog posts, it is good order to reveal your political biases and opinions. I am about to write several, so this is a nice preface that I can just link to, in order to explain my perspective on current political issues. Let […]
Drones and healthcare. A brain dump.
Here are my thoughts about drones in healthcare. Most people are not really aware at how blindingly fast small drones are. Most demonstrations have them moving at a snails pace. They are incredibly quick and can cover large distances in the short time that they have battery life. This makes drones ideal for the delivery […]
Self-driving cars and healthcare. A brain dump.
Here are my thoughts on how self-driving cars related to healthcare. In no particular order. First, it is very likely that self driving technology is already well past the reliability and safety of any human driver. This makes for a classic engineering ethics debate. How long will our society tolerate a technical solution to a […]