Considered instrumental to spying or hiding of military equipment, the project has so far been carried with high discretion, or as one of the researchers describedit, «We are
invisible people studying invisible technology.»
Not exact matches
As Zika tapered, and news coverage of the epidemic became less frequent, the truly vulnerable
people became
invisible, according to the
study.
In a classic
study often dubbed the «
Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several
people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in black.
«Fingerprinting on computers is
invisible to most
people but there are companies out there who are already using these techniques to learn more information about individuals, about their interests and their habits,» says Lachlan Kang, a Computer Science PhD student who is conducting this
study as part of a wider project on privacy, within the University's Schools of Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.
«Our new scientific evidence has really opened up a new way of
studying people that were previously largely
invisible.»
Studies have shown that
people will spend more money when using a credit card than when paying with cash, and student loans operate on a similar premise of borrowed,
invisible money.