Earlier this fall, the Atlantic published a piece forecasting a data-driven culture where consumers are assigned a single score. In the future, members of society are judged against this number. Who...
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At Vijilent we keep saying that we are all about trust and safety.  So for the month of December we will be providing safety tips to take with you anywhere and particularly as you navigate the sharing...
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I started my day today by reading this very raw account of a son's loss of his father due to an unfortunate accident during an Airbnb visit.  The NYT also followed up on the story and the NYT author...
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More on personal information security. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), with a goal to "protect consumers: prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace" has an article...
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Data deluge + insecure storage of data should worry the average consumer as well as the company that collects this data.  In an October 2015 Strata+Hadoop keynote, Pinboard.in founder Maciej Ceglowski
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I can't believe that I haven't posted anything since June.  It's definitely not from a lack of activity!  There have been many highlights over the last 5 months - Vijilent's app launching in the iOS...
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It has been an interesting week with a trip to California to meet with potential customers (quite a successful trip!) while the Vijilent team was back home coding and running the crowdfunding campaign...
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At Disrupt NY 2015, #RonConway and #FredWilson discussed the trends in the sharing economy.  Apparently there is discussion that Airbnb and others may be required to hand data over to regulators on...
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Today’s news story is about the Calgary couple, Mark & Star King, whose house was vandalized for $50,000 again involving an Airbnb guest.  A question being asked in social media is why would they rent...
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I was an early adopter in 1989 of room sharing with Servas. I'm a member of the house sharing networks Couchsurfing, Vrbo and HomeLink. We have had good visits and extraordinarily wonderful visits such...
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