The smartest shopping cart that ever lived

MediaPost reports this morning on an interesting new survey from TNS, which says that “sixty percent of shoppers across the globe believe that they will be able to pay for purchases using just their fingerprint by 2015, rated top by 25% of shoppers.” Never mind the chill that should send down the spine of anyone who values their privacy – we’ll deal with that another day. For the moment let’s have a look at what people expect from The Future®.

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“Data Shadows” and online privacy

It’s been quiet around here lately, and for that I apologize. Short version – been busy trying to make a living. You know how that goes (and hey, this is a biz site, so I shouldn’t be apologizing for being busy, should I?)

Anyway, I wanted to point everybody to a great discussion on “data shadows” and online privacy over at S&R. We have two or three outstanding tech-oriented analysts over there, and Sunfell is asking some questions I guess we all need to be thinking more about…