The power that corporations like Google and Facebook have to influence the digital content you consume means that you shouldn’t necessarily depend on them to surface the things you need to know.
Laurie Frick is a data artist exploring patterns of self-tracking….sensors, surveillance, what will it all mean? Using her background in engineering and high-technology she offers a glimpse into the future of human data portraits physically made and handbuilt as intelligent wallpaper. And is about to launch FRICKbits, a free iphone app that uses an algorithm to make art from your data.
What we see in the public with these hacking incidents seems to only be scratching the surface. There are entire communities and trading networks where the data that is stolen remains private and is rarely shared with the public.
As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place. But one…
So when we ask why payment systems are insecure, it’s bigger — much bigger — than a lack of security at Home Depot, or Target, or name-that-brand. It’s really about an entire system that needs to play catch-up. Because we shop across many stores, and not just one, banks and card companies have to take the lead. So far, they’ve pledged to move to chip-and-PIN cards starting next year, but Litan says that could take seven to 10 years.
For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two
Advertisers can now target their Facebook ads based on how strong someone’s phone signal is.
For most people, privacy is little more than an illusion, one we create so we can feel less vulnerable as we move through the world, so we can believe some parts of ourselves are sacred and free from uninvited scrutiny. The further away you are from living as a white, heterosexual, middle-class man, the less privacy you enjoy – the more likely your illusions of privacy will be shattered when you least expect it.
As Lena Dunham succinctly put it, “The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is the ‘she was wearing a short skirt’ of the web.”
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