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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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E7 - Future of Tracking

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 http://www.forbes.com
E3 - Social Networks E7 - Future of Tracking

Teenagers are tired of sharing every aspect of their lives online and are taking steps to ensure their privacy on social media, report reveals

  • Young people are un-tagging pictures, writing false posts to ensure privacy
  • Code known as ‘vague-booking’ is used to prompts messages from friends
  • Some youngsters are adopting parallel identities for things like gaming
  • Report says teenagers are increasingly concerned with what strangers see
  • Contradicts Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s claim in 2010 that people have become more comfortable with posting private information online
— Read on dailymail.co.uk
E7 - Future of Tracking Must Read

Paying for Digital Privacy

One of the many unfortunate fallouts from the recent hacking scandals is the harsh realization that privacy in the age of the Internet is now essentially gone. Some may argue it was never there in the first place but regardless, it’s clear today that things you do online—whether in email, instant messaging, social media or web browsing—are but a few clicks away from being exposed for all the world to see.

Scary thought, isn’t it?

— Read on techpinions.com
E4 - Mobile E7 - Future of Tracking Must Read

Drones overhead in L.A.’s Valley are tracking mobile devices’ locations

It was only a matter of time before drones started monitoring signals from mobile devices.

Since early February, several small drones flying around the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles have been determining mobile devices’ locations from Wi-Fi and cellular transmission signals.

— Read on venturebeat.com
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