AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Replika have certainly captured the public’s imagination in recent months.  It seemed like we had been waiting an eternity for the Turing Test to be passed, and then one day before Christmas last year ChatGPT launched (and the scientific community also had a breakthrough with nuclear fusion); a big day indeed!

Credit card providers have typically been (relatively) quiet on the subject of user data.  Most likely because they have their own huge stashes based on

It’s been a while.  We’ve been quiet.  Maybe you thought we’d packed up and gone home… But we are still here, and have been quietly

We are proud to share the news that the LetAlone data wallet is live and available to download! It has been a tireless amount of

So we bought a vending machine. We bought personal data of nearby residents in New York. And we put that data directly onto the snacks in the vending machine, with recognizable internet branding, right outside Google’s New York headquarters.. And waited to see people’s reactions. Did they care?

The war on our personal data and privacy can feel a little like tossing pails of water out of a sinking ship. While we will continue to do our best to keep the ship afloat, younger generations (in fact, all generations) need help from industry leaders, governments and educators to provide a greater focus to improving digital literacy so that as a society, we don’t continue to build boats with holes in them.