I Know Where Your Cat Lives
If you have posted a picture of your cat online, data analyst and artist Owen Mundy, and now, the rest of the world, knows where it lives. And, by that logic, he knows where you live, too.
So, what did Watch Dogs actually have to say about surveillance culture?
With time, Watch Dogs proves to not criticize the mentality of those who have access to our data, but to enable, encourage, and reward that mentality. Information stops being an insightful, humanizing privilege, but something to be exploited. Your ungoverned access to people’s privacy—phones, laptops—and city infrastructure is not presented as a responsibility, but an opportunity.
The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
The other day, while I was navigating Reddit I found an interesting post that was called The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World by the author George Dvorsky which was trying to explain the importance that algorithms have in our world today and which ones are the most important for our civilization.
This Is How Your Financial Data Is Being Used to Serve You Ads
Everyone in advertising is buying exhaustive records of your purchases—all your purchases—and comparing them to your viewing habits so that they know which ads you saw and whether or not they changed your behavior.
Own your own data | MIT News Office
OpenPDS would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
NSA targets the privacy-conscious
Source code shows monitoring of specific servers in Berlin, Nuremberg, and other locations worldwide.
Ghostery
Ghostery shows you the invisible web : cookies, tags, web bugs, pixels, beacons and companies interested in your activity. Then it helps you learn about those companies, so you can make informed decisions about what you are/aren’t willing to share, and control your online privacy.
After you’ve seen what’s tracking you, you can decide whether or not you want to block any or all of the companies in Ghostery’s library. Are there some marketers you trust, but others you’d rather turn away?
Dragnet Nation – Julia Angwin
In this thought-provoking, highly accessible exploration of the issues around personal data-gathering, Julia Angwin provides a startling account of how we’re all being tracked, watched, studied, and sorted. Her own (often very funny) attempts to maintain her online privacy demonstrate the ubiquity of the dragnet—and the near impossibility of evading it. I’ll never use Google in the same way again.”
—Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of Happier at Home and The Happiness Project
Porngram
Sexualitics tries to contribute to human sexuality understanding through a Big Data approach.
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