Daily Archives: June 30, 2008

EU selling out private data to the US

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It looks like the EU has not learned a thing from the outrage of giving away flight data and swift financial data to the US, and is now agreeing to give all data the US wants as long as it is ‘adequately protected’. What that level of protection is, isn’t defined, so if the US says it’s adequately protected (say, by having it lying about in a taxi on a USB drive), then the EU will automatically have to give the US the data.
Not only that, but it also looks like there is absolutely no safeguard as to what the US government will do to the data once it’s finished with it. Destroy it? Sell it? Apparently the EU is saying: “Whatever”.

Is free will governed by thought?

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Most fysiologists and psychologists know that movements are initiated by the brain some time before the conscious mind thinks about them and ‘decides’ to initiate them.

This article rounds up a little on desicion making in general, showing that the time could be up to 30 seconds before determination when making mistakes and 10 seconds when picking ‘random’ events. Amazingly, ‘random’ desicions can be predicted accurately around 70% of the time!