The impact of privacy breaches in Canada
Anne Bertrand, Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner, Government of New Brunswick, discusses the impact of privacy breaches in Canada.
I know what you did on the web
The sites you frequent on a daily basis are actively gathering facts about you. That’s why the jacket you’ve been coyly eyeing inconspicuously appeared in an ad on an unrelated website. Social networks are betting on a future built on a personalized web, your own Internet paradise filled with items the virtual you will likely share, pin, tweet, and like.
Marketers are spying on Internet users
Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology.
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.
How much does spy agency CSEC know about your private life?
Ultra-secretive government agency CSEC is collecting hugely revealing information on law-abiding Canadians.
You may have nothing to hide – but do you really want intimate details of your private life to be collected and stored in insecure government databases?
Internet surveillance explained
Internet surveillance explained from Colombian digital rights organization, Karisma Foundation, on Internet surveillance and the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles.
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).
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