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We are 100% tracked, 100% predicted and 100% sold
to an industry worth over US$150 billion.
Each one of us allows a huge amount of our personal data to be collected and sold by tech companies, corporates and data brokers. Our every action, search and detail is being handled recklessly and exploited for profit.
Thirty million Americans regularly watch porn online, according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s a lot more than fess up to it, even in anonymous surveys: In 2013, just 12 percent of people asked copped to watching internet porn at all. But thanks to pervasive online tracking and browser fingerprinting, the brazen liars of America may not have a say in whether their porn habits stay secret. Porn watchers everywhere are being tracked, and if software engineer Brett Thomas is right, it would be easy to out them, along with an extensive list of every clip they’ve viewed.
The last time we wrote about the browser technology known as Do Not Track – over four years ago! – the online privacy space was much simpler. The hope was that DNT, once it was ‘baked in’ to every major browser, would enable internet users to turn off invasive tracking quickly and easily.
But that hasn’t happened. Why not?
Will Dave Eggers’s new novel “The Circle” end up being prophetic? The book is a warning about how we are well on our way to losing the last shred of privacy we have.
The data we generate online has spawned a complex new ecosystem of firms tracking, interpreting and selling our data to advertisers. This raises privacy concerns for consumers.
Explore and minimise your ‘digital shadows’: the information traces you leave behind when you use the internet and mobile phones.
Thousands of companies use bits of your personal information to piece together profiles of you that get bought and sold, hijacked, modified, and mucked with. Disconnect offer you transparency, control, and privacy where and when you want it.
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
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