CB00881 Smart Cities

Last post of mine you'll see here. I promise. At first I didn't quite know what to expect from this class. I just knew Smart Cities sounded interesting, at least to me. And so I jumped in. We jumped in. Little did we know where things would end up turning... actually, at first I wasn't convinced about working with students cross-nationally, I just believed whatever project we did could be more easily managed and within conditions that would harm our progress as least as possible if all our teammates where geographically at the same place. However, the opportunity came and we took it. All this, as you may very well know if you've read any of my other posts here... which I really doubt, and don't blame you. Even I question myself most times as to WHY I'm writing all these posts. Anyways... This post is supposed to be about what I learned during this whole semester, so let's get right to it. At first it was a mess, honestly. We were thinking to do things...

Enough about out project. Let's talk about something else. What do you think about when you hear the words “data leak”? For me personally, controversial hacks to famous social networks and online stores come to mind. But that’s the thing, that’s not the only data you should be worried about leaking... there’s a lot more information about you out there than you know. There’s a lot more research going into this than you think, too. One’s presence on the Internet, trace, contributions and records can be called our Digital Footprint. For you to be reading this, you must certainly have one too. For an increasing majority (me included), this footprint extends way beyond our awareness, spreading far beyond boundaries with (or without) intention. This footprint is commonly broken down into active and passive traces, data exhaust is part of the latter. Rather than being data that people consciously create, it’s data that people unintentionally generate, unaware that it res...