The Our Reality Privacy Policy

Reality Mining and Personal Privacy Will Privacy Disappear when Social Sensors Learn Our Lives?

We define reality mining as quantifying and modeling long-term human behavior and social interactions, by using mobile phones and wearable badges as sensors that capture realworld face-to-face interactions. In this paper, we describe two experiments that use this approach: (a) understanding the diffusion of social behaviors using mobile phones at an undergraduate dormitory for an entire year an...

The Privacy Policy Paradox

There have been multiple studies exploring the content and efficacy of privacy policies. However, to date no one has examined them from the angle we are proposing for this study: to determine whether the presence of a privacy policy link on a website has any significant influence on one's willingness to disclose personal information. Our study intends to examine whether the link itself acts as ...

Can Our Experiments Illuminate Reality?

Our reality as emergent phenomenon

In this article, I propose new paradigm of physics. The paradigm leads to simple and unified picture of world. Such simplification and unification has cost of several key concepts of philosophy, including Being. I propose very radical hypothesis of emergent space-time-matter, in which space-time-matter are emergent properties of more fundamental entity. The hypothesis of emergent reality (ERhyp...

Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality

We investigate the feasibility of combining publicly available Web 2.0 data with off-the-shelf face recognition software for the purpose of large-scale, automated individual re-identification. Two experiments demonstrated the ability of identifying strangers online (on a dating site where individuals protect their identities by using pseudonyms) and offline (in a public space), based on photos ...