There's enough data floating around about any given person to predict where they'll be next Thursday around 5:53 p.m., says Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of IBM's Entity Analytics group. The question is how privacy models will change as a result of the amount of data collected via cell phones, transactions and social media sites, among others, ZDNet reports. "The surveillance society is inevitable and irresistible," Jonas said at a recent conference in New York, adding that he's working on an "analytic sensemaking" machine that will incorporate privacy features into it from its construction that cannot be turned off. The system, called G2, aims to "explore new physics of big data," the report states.
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