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.
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.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design teamed up with the Mozilla Foundation to improve the visualization design of Lightbeam, an experimental add – on for Firefox that allows you to see the third parties that have connected themselves to your online activity. Goals for the project included making it easy for people to make sense of their own browsing data, to expose relationships between websites and third parties – which normally remain hidden – and ultimately to give people the tools to make their own decisions about their online privacy.
XRay, a new tool that reveals which data in a web account, such as emails, searches, or viewed products, are being used to target which outputs, such as ads, recommended products, or prices.
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups, which they say could transform social science research.
“This is a new era,” said Jeffrey T. Hancock, a Cornell University professor of communication and information science. “I liken it a little bit to when chemistry got the microscope.”
Does the collection of data by companies threaten consumers’ civil rights?
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
Fin 2013, ne trouvant aucune base de données des différents programmes, La Quadrature du Net commence, grâce à quelques bénévoles, le site nsa-observer.net qui regroupe l’ensemble des programmes de la NSA et du GCHQ provenant des fuites de Snowden.
Things the NSA doesn’t want you to know
And why you should know about it 🙂 Since summer 2013, we have been gathering and processing public information about the NSA global surveillance which has resulted in a collection of 359 NSA
They usually have your name, other names you’ve gone by, where you currently live, where you used to live, your phone number, your family members, your birth date and age, your criminal record, the real estate you own, and more.
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