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S01E01 : Morning Rituals

Who profits from the data we generate every day?
Meet the trackers, an industry most people can’t see, control or question.

E6 - Filter Bubble

The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here

Wednesday morning, in what marks a tectonic shift in the publishing industry, the New York Times is expected to officially begin a long-awaited partnership with Facebook to publish articles directly to the social media giant, a source with direct knowledge of the talks told me. According to people familiar with the negotiations, the Times will begin publishing select articles directly into Facebook’s news feed. BuzzFeed, NBC News, and NatGeo are said to be also joining the rollout, among others.

— Read on New York Mag
E6 - Filter Bubble Must Read

Facebook’s Extremes

On the far left and the far right, users of the social network are stuck in echo chambers of their own making.

Does Facebook filter our political discourse? Last week, the company released a study of user profiles that purported to show that the social network’s News Feed algorithm doesn’t limit our access to diverse and opposing political points of view. Rather, it said, the narrowness of our Facebook conversations is a result of how we naturally behave. Facebook didn’t create the so-called filter bubble, the authors claimed; it merely reflects it.

— Read on Slate
Making-Of

Cybertainment: Web series shows how personal data is taken online

Most people who are setting up a social media account or downloading a new app hit the “Agree” button for the terms of service agreement without even reading it. They have a vague idea that they’re selling off parts of themselves. The illuminating Web documentary “Do Not Track” will give them a clear of idea of just how much they’re giving away — and to whom.

“Do Not Track” is an international effort, produced by the French production company Upian, the National Film Board of Canada, the French/German public broadcaster Arte and German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.

— Read on Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Making-Of

All The Ways Your Smartphone Is Spying On You 24/7

“Have you ever wondered how Google tracks where you are? How about what those terms and conditions mean when you access free Wi-Fi?

As scary as it sounds, your smartphone’s apps share a lot of the private information on your device with marketing agencies, phone operators and other private companies. But where does all that data go? And what happens to it?

AJ+ and the interactive documentary series “Do Not Track” investigate.

S01E02 : Breaking Ad

Accepting cookies is a part of our digital life.
If we said no, would the Internet still work? Let’s trace the economic origins of online tracking.

E3 - Social Networks E6 - Filter Bubble Must Read

Facebook study says it’s your fault, not theirs, if your feed is all like-minded friends

Is Facebook an echo chamber? Does the social network help us create filter bubbles, through which we’re only exposed to content and opinions that are like our own? According to the company, not really.

In new study published today in the journal Science, Facebook claims that it’s mostly humans, not its News Feed ranking algorithm, that are at fault for making their feeds ideologically consistent.

“While News Feed surfaces content that is slightly more aligned with an individual’s own ideology (based on that person’s actions on Facebook), who they friend and what content they click on are more consequential than the News Feed ranking in terms of how much diverse content they encounter,” according to Facebook’s Data Science page.

— Read on Fusion
E4 - Mobile Must Read

NSA planned to hijack Google App Store to hack smartphones

The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals.

The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, which includes spies from each of the countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance — the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

The top-secret document, obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was published Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept. The document outlines a series of tactics that the NSA and its counterparts in the Five Eyes were working on during workshops held in Australia and Canada between November 2011 and February 2012.

— Read on The Intercept
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