A Day in Big Data
Watch a day in the life of big data, for the advertising agency OgilvyOne.
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
The Keynote – A Free Your Data Campaign Video
Free Your Data is a campaign to reclaim our data sovereignty as citizens. The campaign relies on the power of the crowd and everyone can get involved. Sign the petition at http://www.change.org/freeyourdata and join us in campaigning for a new European law: the European Data Sovereignty Act.
Free Your Data
We are 100% tracked, 100% predicted and 100% sold
to an industry worth over US$150 billion.
Each one of us allows a huge amount of our personal data to be collected and sold by tech companies, corporates and data brokers. Our every action, search and detail is being handled recklessly and exploited for profit.
Your Porn Is Watching You
Thirty million Americans regularly watch porn online, according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s a lot more than fess up to it, even in anonymous surveys: In 2013, just 12 percent of people asked copped to watching internet porn at all. But thanks to pervasive online tracking and browser fingerprinting, the brazen liars of America may not have a say in whether their porn habits stay secret. Porn watchers everywhere are being tracked, and if software engineer Brett Thomas is right, it would be easy to out them, along with an extensive list of every clip they’ve viewed.
How the Pentagon plans to replace the password
No matter how strong it is, the password is one of the weakest forms of security.
Punching the correct code into a computer can’t verify your identity. It simply shows that someone remembered – or stole – the right combination of letters and numbers.
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?
Looking Up Symptomes Online ? These Companies Are Tracking You
It’s 2015—when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet. According to the Pew Internet Project, 72 percent of US internet users look up health-related information online. But an astonishing number of the pages we visit to learn about private health concerns—confidentially, we assume—are tracking our queries, sending the sensitive data to third party corporations, even shipping the information directly to the same brokers who monitor our credit scores. It’s happening for profit, for an “improved user experience,” and because developers have flocked to “free” plugins and tools provided by data-vacuuming companies…
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.
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