Do you have a secret?
What would you do if the government asked you to hand over your computer?
Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services and social networks. Find out how to delete your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts and more social and web services.
Watch Dogs – Digital Shadow
A promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. It combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa (“obsessions”), which interact more with you (“stalkers”), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely (“liabilities”).
The Internet in Real-Time
Watch as these internet giants accumulate wealth in real-time.
How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data
A Princeton University professor tried to hide her pregnancy from targeted online advertising for the past nine months. It wasn’t easy.
Confessions of a Data Broker
Acxiom’s CEO Scott Howe explains how self-regulation can work.
Not long ago, data brokers—companies that compile databases of consumer information and then sell them to marketers—toiled in the shadows of media and advertising, seen as largely responsible for those piles of junk mail. Then along came the Internet and the ability to track consumer browsing behavior, enabling data brokers to synch online and offline data. Brokers became the new villain in the privacy debate, subject to investigations by policy makers.
Reset the Net
Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back.
Mass surveillance is illegitimate. I’m taking steps to take my freedoms back and I expect governments and corporations to follow in my footsteps and take steps to stop all mass government surveillance.
Beware of the Robot Pharmacist
In tech-driven medicine, alerts are so common that doctors and pharmacists learn to ignore them — at the patient’s risk.
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