You cycle through your passwords. They tell a secret story. What’s most important to you, the things you think can’t be deciphered. Words and numbers stored in the lining of your heart. Your daughter’s name. Your daughter’s name backward. Your daughter’s name backward plus the year of her birth. They keep changing. They blur in the brain.
Over the last year, we’ve learned more and more about the National Security Agency’s spying programs. Indeed, there have now been so many revelations that it can be hard to keep them straight.
So here’s a handy guide to the most significant ways the NSA spies on people in the United States and around the world.
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and you’ve left your cards at home. No problem. You scan your right index finger; the green light flashes. Purchase approved and you leave. Easy.
We’re not there yet, but a cashless society is not as fanciful as it seems.
Off Grid is an adventure, satire and stealth game about a mishap antihero. You play an everyman pencil pusher, who is oblivious to the city’s prying and spying, corporate-sponsored government until a series of dark events unfold.
The contemporary storyline follows real-world events surrounding data privacy, and gameplay utilises unique mechanics that allow you to manipulate the world and people around you with the data they unwittingly leave behind.
Federico Zannier has data mined himself and sold his own personal data on Kickstarter. But how much is he worth?
Every day, companies are gathering and sharing information about you, even when you aren’t logged in.
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone has started shipping to its first wave of buyers. Designed to put user privacy front and centre, it focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user.
In the 3rd episode of this four-part series, Dr Aleks Krotoski gives the lowdown on how commerce has colonised the web and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be ‘free’ sites and services in hidden ways. She is joined by some of the most influential business leaders of today’s web, including Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon), Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), Chad Hurley (CEO of YouTube), Bill Gates, Martha Lane Fox and Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix).
Aleks Krotoski also explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and what this may mean for our notions of privacy.
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