The state of the media in 2015 begins and ends with the tech giant.
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social publishing site, just 11 years old, is now the dominant force in American media. It drives a quarter of all web traffic. In turn, Facebook sucks up a huge portion of ad revenue—the money that keeps news organizations running—and holds an enormous captive audience.
It’s the Facebook you always dreamed of.
Ghosts is a simple game with an important message.
It allows web-users to see how their personal information and online activity is being collected and used by trackers on any webpage.
In Ghosts, trackers appear as little ghosts which users can chase and defeat, while exploring the hidden depth of the web.
The following Code of Ethics represents an industry effort to treat consumer data with the respect and attention it deserves. It is a commitment to data stewardship and an effort to educate organizations and Internet users globally of digital data collection and utilization practices.
What Crystal is offering is something like digital clairvoyance when it comes e-mail communications and marketing. Ostensibly, the automated interface makes it effortless to tweak your prose to conform with a recipient’s conception of an ideal note.
It was just a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it’s a smart thing.
You are being tracked.
Right now, websites are following your online moves, learning your habits and tailoring the ads and information you see to fit the mold they’ve created of you. They know what kind of computer you’re on, where you shop and how the weather is outside your door.
We live in a world in which our privacy is constantly being violated — and we’re basically asking for it.
That’s the lesson you learn when you dive into “Do Not Track,” an interactive online documentary series that debuted at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. “Do Not Track” pulls back the digital curtain on how your online life is monitored, manipulated and monetized.
Filmmaker and web developer Brett Gaylor wants you — yes, you specifically — to appreciate how your data is being tracked on the internet. His interactive, customizable NFB documentary Do Not Track, doesn’t just tell you but expressly shows you just how sophisticated online surveillance has become.
First, insurance companies gave us black boxes to put in our cars so they could track our driving, in exchange for discounts when we refrain from speeding. Now, they’re coming for our bodies.
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