This week: privacy (what privacy?), mind control games, and boring innovation. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

 

The stories this week:

Facebook figures out family secrets

A game you can control with your mind

Y Combinator bets on boring business problems

 

Other stories we bring up:

Facebook recommends psychiatrist’s patients to befriend each other 

Facebook doesn’t tell users everything it knows about them

More on Facebook’s privacy 

How does Facebook work with data providers?

With a few bits of data, researchers identify ‘Anonymous’ people

Unique in the shopping mall: on the reidentifiability of credit card metadata study

Gawker NY taxi reidentifying rider data

2013 Harvard study demonstrated that researchers able to reidentify patients

The dominance of Google and Facebook in the online ad market

SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable

Neurable video

Braincontrolled VR game

 

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