Google just announced a hefty move in its ad war against Facebook
Over the next few weeks, Google is bringing cross-device measurement to its DoubleClick advertising platform for the first time.
Author: Sébastien Brothier
Help, I’m trapped in Facebook’s Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory
TWO WEEKS AGO, Facebook locked me out of my profile. My photos and friends are gone, my profile vanished without a trace.
Science Fiction, The Surveillance State and World War III
Cory Doctorow – science fiction author, journalist and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing – joins New America’s Peter Singer and Passcode’s Sara Sorcher to talk about society’s “peak indifference” to the Surveillance State, what policies could stand in the way of a future Internet utopia, whether young people actually care about their privacy online, and what a future world war might look like in the 2020s.
Dan Kaufman, director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, chats about funding “moonshot” projects to help the military beef up its digital defenses, the risks that come with the burgeoning Internet of Things, and what it’s like to work in an office with robots in the lobby.
Opinion: If predictive algorithms craft the best e-mails, we’re all in big trouble
What Crystal is offering is something like digital clairvoyance when it comes e-mail communications and marketing. Ostensibly, the automated interface makes it effortless to tweak your prose to conform with a recipient’s conception of an ideal note.
In the future, your insurance company will know when you’re having sex
First, insurance companies gave us black boxes to put in our cars so they could track our driving, in exchange for discounts when we refrain from speeding. Now, they’re coming for our bodies.
Datacoup: Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data
Our mission to help people unlock the value of their personal data.
Almost every link in the economic chain has their hand in our collective data pocket. Data brokers in the US alone account for a $15bn industry, yet they have zero relationship with the consumers whose data they harvest and sell. They offer no discernible benefit back to the producers of this great data asset – you.
Giving Out Private Data for Discount in Insurance
Andrew Thomas’s life insurer knows exactly when he arrives at his local gym. The company is notified when he swipes his membership card, and 30 minutes later, it checks that he is still there, tracking his location through his smartphone.
Privacy is a four-letter word It’s time to clean up our language
You and me? We’re being tracked whether we like it or not.
Use a web browser, apps on your phone — there’s a company (or companies) out there amassing reams of data about every click, tap, photo, song, notification, or icon in your digital life. But don’t get up in arms over the loss of your “privacy”. This word, “privacy”? — it’s a problem.
Pwnd. How a Google hacker would hack you.
Parisa Tabriz manages the Chrome Security team, who work on making Chrome the safest way to browse the web. The best defense requires an offensive mindset, so it’s her job to think like a criminal. Here’s how she’d hack you.
Hashtag Data Positive
Privacy, safety, and security aren’t sexy topics, and neither are condoms and STIs. But understanding them is critically important to being able to enjoy sex responsibly. And sex positivity, as a social construct, recast “consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, [encouraging] sexual pleasure and experimentation.”
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