Mindtreking Mindtrek, Part 2

So we continued the day, some of my classmates and me were interested in some talks, some in others so we changed our groups a bit.

This next talk Open Data - End Privacy, was one of those times where the presenter asked "who can define privacy" and no one answered, quite some time went by and no one would answer. Again I felt bad for the presenter so I attempted to say something coherent but failed miserably and babble something that didn't even made sense to myself, hahaha making up stuff as you speak is not the way to go. But in any case i think we circle back at "It's so hard to define because it's easy to understand" I think it applies well here, too. He corrected my failed attempt and defined privacy as "Control over data about you". Well put sir, well put.

Among other things, he introduced a few new terms to me. Such as:

Stop cyber bullying!

Doxing: Online bullying. Posting private information about someone trying to harm them in any way.
Swatting: Literally calling the SWAT team on them, just to cause them trouble.

He talked about the RTBF (right to be forgotten) and how it applies nowadays. International laws are a pain.

The rest of the day went on and I was trully sad not being able to go see the robot. Having met some other intelligent robot in the past, The iCub that my friend Juxi worked on, I was really looking forward to seeing this other one, but then I had to pick up my toddler from päiväkoti (daycare) so alas, my day was done. I was so sad at home accessing the Mindtrek page on my phone and reading the questions people were posting. Meh.

He was not this Adama tough.

The next day, we started with Pierre A. Damas, who's name could only make me think of this Adama. Yet he reminded me more of another famous tv character. In any case, after all the useless character references, He spoke of how the E.U. was using Open source. He also very briefly talkedabout 3d printing, which is something I like, so I was hoping he spoke more of that, but alas he did not.

We later moved onto the academic part of Mindtrek. We went to the game's area of the "trek". We were introduced to the other university's Game research lab. We were presented with several projects they had and got to learn a bit more about what they did during those researches.

uugg, I can't finish this now. too much stuff to do, So I will continue on part 3.