Own your own data | MIT News Office
OpenPDS would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
Why I quit Facebook and we are sharing much more than you think | LinkedIn
Facebook was a great tool. Sadly, it no longer is and it will not be anymore.
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
I want to come back to Facebook as an user. I want to connect with my online friends once again. I want to see what they are up to. But until the day I feel comfortable enough sharing anything on Facebook, I will avoid your site like a plague. Can you please help ex-users like me rebuild the lost confidence of using your social network?
Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government | PandoDaily
NSA? DoD? U.S. Navy? Police surveillance? What the hell is going on? How is it possible that a privacy tool was created by the same military and intelligence agencies that it’s supposed to guard us against? Is it a ruse? A sham? A honeytrap? Maybe I’m just being too paranoid…
Unfortunately, this is not a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. It is cold hard fact.
Prospective Cell Site Records Opinion rev3
Cell phones can be considered “the world’s most effective tracking devices” – Judge Smith decision quoting Julia Angwin
NSA targets the privacy-conscious
Source code shows monitoring of specific servers in Berlin, Nuremberg, and other locations worldwide.
Screwing with your emotions is Facebook’s entire business
You’ve probably heard about the controversial Facebook study. But manipulating the News Feed is Facebook’s entire business.
The conventional wisdom is that if you’re not paying for anything, then you are the product being sold. But that line of thinking is pretty superficial — it ignores both the value people do get out of Facebook and the actual way Facebook makes money.
On Facebook, advertisers can pay to make sure their targeted stuff shows up in your News Feed. There’s just a few sponsored entries mixed into the usual endless scroll of stuff your friends have shared. Ads are designed to change our emotions and advertisers are paying Facebook to manipulate your emotions by changing the News Feed.
What we’re mad about is the idea of Facebook having so much power we don’t understand — a power that feels completely unchecked when it’s described as “manipulating our emotions.”
Facebook data scientists worried that some users were subject to multiple experiments $FB
The Facebook Data Science group that experimented on user emotions until recently operated with few boundaries and little oversight.
Goldman Sachs convinced Google to remove an email from a stranger’s inbox
It all started with an email typo. Entering a client’s email address last week, a contractor accidentally swapped @gs.com for @gmail.com — so instead of sending to a Goldman Sachs employee, the message went to a random stranger.
Normally, that would just be an embarrassment, but this particular email included private client data, and Goldman Sachs is willing to move heaven and earth to get it back. According to a new report from Reuters, the battle has taken the Wall Street firm to the New York State Supreme Court, pleading with Google to delete the email to prevent a “needless and massive privacy violation,” in the company’s words.
Facebook Says It’s Sorry. We’ve Heard That Before.
Sometimes, being wrong on the Internet means having to say you’re sorry. Facebook offered up an apology to its users on Sunday, after it came to light that the company had manipulated the news feeds of more than half a million people so it could change the number of positive and negative posts that appear from their friends.
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