Verizon’s Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy
While Internet users can choose to delete their regular cookies, Verizon Wireless users cannot delete the company’s so-called supercookies.
Your Private Data Isn’t Yours — Maybe It Never Was
A gang of bad-ass cyberfeminists tear into the big question: Is there life after Snowden?
Ever since the NSA and other security services have effectively declared the internet a war zone, some people have been retreating from the digital world to protect their intimate spaces. Addie Wagenknecht, however, didn’t feel like hiding. Instead, the artist-in-residence at the Frank Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University invited some of the “baddest-ass ladies” across arts, design, engineering, science, and journalism to explore the role of the arts in the Post Snowden era.
Facebook data know you better than your own mother
In one corner we have a computer armed with a list of things you “Liked” on Facebook. In the other, your friends, family, and coworkers, relying on an analog trove of memories and the raw strength of their own judgment. Who’s sketch of your personality is more likely to match your own?
Facebook Page Unliker
Remember those embarassing pages you liked on Facebook as back when it was first starting? When it was known as “Becoming a Fan” of a page? Some of us that were bored teenagers (such as myself), when in a liking spree for these pages, accumulating a lot of embarrassing (and dumb), likes in the process. This app merely allows you to see all of your Facebook Pages liked (oldest) first and allowing you to scroll through and unlike those that you do not wish to show up on your profile anymore. Don’t worry, we don’t store any personal data from your Facebook account, we just need to you to connect using it so we can find your pages that you need to unlike. Enjoy and share this with your friends!
Jaron Lanier: Why Facebook Isn’t Free
Internet pioneer Jaron Lanier argues that free technologies like Facebook come with a hidden and heavy cost — the livelihoods of their consumers.
The Future of Privacy
The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age. No issue highlights this any better than privacy, always a fluid and context-situated concept and more so now as the boundary between being private and being public is shifting. “We have seen the emergence of publicy as the default modality, with privacy declining,” wrote Stowe Boyd, the lead researcher for GigaOm Research in his response in this study. “In order to ‘exist’ online, you have to publish things to be shared, and that has to be done in open, public spaces.” If not, people have a lesser chance to enrich friendships, find or grow communities, learn new things, and act as economic agents online.
What Do Media Companies Really Want?
Technology giants like Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon — along with the data analysts at legacy media companies like Disney and Time Warner — spend their days trying to seduce their audiences by creating ultra-targeted streams of news, television clips, opinions and other pop culture ephemera. When members of that same audience log on to social networks, Hulu accounts, Netflix or Amazon Prime they consume ads, videos and news items that cater to what the algorithms driving those services believe users want.
How big data could change the way we live
After working as a senior legal executive at Twitter and Google, Nicole Wong came to the White House in June 2013. It was a critical time. Edward Snowden’s leaks about government surveillance had thrust online privacy into the forefront, and in the wake of public backlash, Wong helped to author a highly anticipated report on how the massive collection of personal data online could affect the way people live and work. Here’s what she learned.
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