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CES 2023: Sensors, Consumer Electronics and Personal Data

CES 2023: Sensors, Consumer Electronics and Personal Data

The Consumer Electronics Show will once again take place on January 5 to 8, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada and is expected to feature over…
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Paulius Jurcys
Positive liberties with personal data, not just privacy red tape

Positive liberties with personal data, not just privacy red tape

The distinction between negative and positive liberties is important in sociology and philosophy, especially when it comes to offering…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Prifina Joins Insurance Innovators Summit

Prifina Joins Insurance Innovators Summit

On November 16–17, 2022, Insurance Innovators Summit will take place in London. The event is known as “the world’s most important insurance…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
What Will the Use of Data Look Like in the Age of Metaverse and Web 3.0?

What Will the Use of Data Look Like in the Age of Metaverse and Web 3.0?

As the VC capital continues to flow to Web 3.0 and Metaverse startups, many questions remain to be answered: How will the next era of…
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Paulius Jurcys
TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

On October 12–21, 2022, some of the most innovative minds of the world flocked to San Francisco to attend Techcrunch Disrupt 2022 — the…
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Paulius Jurcys
People in smart cities should have a say in who gets their data

People in smart cities should have a say in who gets their data

Smart cities run on data generated by the people who live in them. This raises privacy issues that smart city projects aren’t taking…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Data can help us understand humans, the world and why things happen

Data can help us understand humans, the world and why things happen

Many services and processes nowadays are based on data analytics: finance markets, health services, marketing, risk management, predictive…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
IoT and wearables need the right balance to break down data silos

IoT and wearables need the right balance to break down data silos

Data silos, data pipelining and other daily issues enterprises have with their data are talked about so often these days that they’re…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Developer Creativity, Personal Data and Open Source

Developer Creativity, Personal Data and Open Source

Liberty. Equality. Data. Podcast #11 with Heather Meeker
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Paulius Jurcys
Mobile services of the future must be headless and decentralized

Mobile services of the future must be headless and decentralized

When we look back on the various ‘G’s, 3G and smartphones were a major paradigm shift from the old-fashioned phone calls and feature phones…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Open-source solutions need finely balanced ecosystems

Open-source solutions need finely balanced ecosystems

Open-source solutions require an ecosystem that finds the right balance between being both genuinely open-source and a sustainable…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Wellness tech: trendy gadgets for the rich, or better health for everyone?

Wellness tech: trendy gadgets for the rich, or better health for everyone?

Most people say health is the most critical thing in their life. At the same time, health services and products are not things people want…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Insurance companies must embrace user-held data models

Insurance companies must embrace user-held data models

Many businesses are now becoming data businesses. But there are also businesses that have always been data businesses. One such…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Using Dynamic Data Generators to build User-Held data apps

Using Dynamic Data Generators to build User-Held data apps

How to build decentralized data apps, where the data stays with the user
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Markus Lampinen
Wellness and health wearables need open ecosystems to thrive

Wellness and health wearables need open ecosystems to thrive

Wellness and health wearables companies are at a crossroads — will they choose the path on which they can build a long-term successful…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Paper still dominates ID, KYC and AML processes — why?

Paper still dominates ID, KYC and AML processes — why?

Identity, know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundry (AML) are critical issues, especially for financial institutions. They are…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
MENA QIC InsurTech Hackathon — Leveraging Personal Data for Health, Mobility and Insurance Apps

MENA QIC InsurTech Hackathon — Leveraging Personal Data for Health, Mobility and Insurance Apps

The future of services is personal and individualized, where AI dominates and weaves through every day life. Yet challenges remain to…
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Markus Lampinen
Mental wellbeing and health data needs better solutions to be useful

Mental wellbeing and health data needs better solutions to be useful

Health data is becoming more important not only because we get more data from many sources — including wearables and DNA tests — but also…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
AI Household Staff and Why Only User-Held Data Models Deliver It

AI Household Staff and Why Only User-Held Data Models Deliver It

When we talk about the Internet (or Web 3) ten years from now, what will it look like? At Prifina, we are building a personal data engine…
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Markus Lampinen
Is decentralization now real?

Is decentralization now real?

Decentralization is a popular technology trend at the moment. It is linked to edge computing, blockchain, and Web3. This is happening at a…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
Life or Death: Fostering an Open Health Data Market

Life or Death: Fostering an Open Health Data Market

Liberty. Equality. Data. Podcast #10 with Dr. Jaan Altosaar
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Paulius Jurcys
The smart devices market is unsustainable — here’s how to fix that

The smart devices market is unsustainable — here’s how to fix that

Smart devices and Silicon Valley-driven consumer electronics are not very ecological or sustainable businesses. In most cases, the Silicon…
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Jouko Ahvenainen
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