A World Without Privacy
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.
How internet advertisers read your mind
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.
What is a digital shadow
Explore and minimise your ‘digital shadows’: the information traces you leave behind when you use the internet and mobile phones.
Unwanted tracking is not cool
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.
Mapping emotions using real-life tracking cookies
Tracking people? Yep! Each cookie had a QR-code etched into it by a lasercutter. When people scanned the QR code we were able to figure out where they did that, and then show that live on a map (see below).
Track The Trackers
Track the Trackers is a capstone project created by three Winona State University Mass Communication students. The purpose of this project is to bring into focus the nearly invisible world of third-party tracking. Our goal is to educate consumers on the potential dangers in letting this data be collected, and to share information, techniques, and software to help consumers protect themselves online.
Protect your privacy with DoNotTrackMe
Abine, the online privacy company, makes DoNotTrackMe to block online tracking companies and protect your personal information.
WTF is cross-device tracking?
The mobile ad ecosystem is in “chaos,” and cross-device tracking aims to make sense of it. Here, we aim to make sense of cross-device tracking.
Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block – ProPublica
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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