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S01E07 : To change the future, click here

Based on the data collected from Do Not Track’s users, we have predicted three possible outcomes for society. And yet the one constant about the future is that it's not written: it is all still up to us.

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Life inside the bubble of a virtual reality world

Since the introduction of virtual reality (VR), technologists have struggled to design products and applications that draw users into digital worlds that are comparable to real-life experiences. As we progress towards the ability to tell stories by offering wholly immersive experiences for the user, we start to imagine what an entire industry devoted to the creation of virtual reality may look like in the near future. In this TEDxTalk, Ana Serrano extracts lessons learned from the explosion of the Internet over the past twenty years, and explains how these will help guide us in the creation of the virtual reality industry for the next twenty years. What can we learn from the way advertising and the public commons have changed online over time? How will this affect the VR world for the future? What risks does it present to the consumer? And how can we rectify it going forward? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions she tackles during this talk.

— Read on TEDx
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Your Private Data Isn’t Yours — Maybe It Never Was

A gang of bad-ass cyberfeminists tear into the big question: Is there life after Snowden?

Ever since the NSA and other security services have effectively declared the internet a war zone, some people have been retreating from the digital world to protect their intimate spaces. Addie Wagenknecht, however, didn’t feel like hiding. Instead, the artist-in-residence at the Frank Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University invited some of the “baddest-ass ladies” across arts, design, engineering, science, and journalism to explore the role of the arts in the Post Snowden era.

— Read on Medium
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The Future of Privacy

The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age. No issue highlights this any better than privacy, always a fluid and context-situated concept and more so now as the boundary between being private and being public is shifting. “We have seen the emergence of publicy as the default modality, with privacy declining,” wrote Stowe Boyd, the lead researcher for GigaOm Research in his response in this study. “In order to ‘exist’ online, you have to publish things to be shared, and that has to be done in open, public spaces.” If not, people have a lesser chance to enrich friendships, find or grow communities, learn new things, and act as economic agents online.

— Read on Pewinternet
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Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom

Personal injury cases are prime targets for manipulation and conjecture. How do you show that someone who’s been in a car accident can’t do their job properly, and deserves thousands of dollars in compensation? Till now lawyers have relied on doctors to observe someone for half an hour or so and give their, sometimes-biased opinion. Soon, they might also tap the wealth of quantifiable data provided by fitness trackers. A law firm in Calgary is working on the first known personal injury case that will use activity data from a Fitbit to help show the effects of an accident on their client.

— Read on Forbes
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Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States’ extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide.”

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Londoners Agree to Hand Over Their First Born For Internet Access

Europol and F-Secure wanted to highlight how rarely people read terms and conditions pages, which are often long and difficult to understand. In the experiment, the hotspot’s terms and conditions page promised free Wi-Fi if “the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity.” Six people agreed.

— Read on Newsweek
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