When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the company in 2010, he did not go to Google or Twitter. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another institution that analyzes large pools of data: the N.S.A..
BlueCava provides the digital advertising industry with technology that addresses the challenges of identifying, targeting and measuring mobile audiences across screens and channels.
Ashkan Soltani is an independent researcher and consultant focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics. His work draws attention to privacy problems online, demystifies technology for the non-technically inclined, and provides data-driven insights to help inform policy.
Journalists warned system owners and Norwegian NSA of 2500 critical data flaws. How two journalists set out on a mission to test the data security in the whole of Norway.
The White House reiterated its call for greater protection of people’s personal info — two years after proposing a “privacy bill of rights” that went nowhere in Congress. At this point, the United States still has trouble saying that you, and not Google, should have the last word on how your personal information is used.
Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight.
Over the past six months or so, a huge amount of attention has been paid to government snooping, and the bulk collection and storage of vast amounts of raw data in the name of national security. What most of you don’t know, or are just beginning to realize, is that a much greater and more immediate threat to your privacy is coming from thousands of companies you’ve probably never heard of, in the name of commerce.
AboutTheData.com allows you to view, edit, and remove information about yourself from Acxiom’s marketing database.
Microsoft is developing a proprietary tracking system that could follow you from apps to the web and from your PC to your tablet to your videogame console. Just imagine what the NSA could do with it.
In the future, most people will live in a total surveillance state – and some of us might even like it.
Director Cullen Hoback’s campaigning documentary Terms & Conditions May Apply is a call to digital arms. He explains why now is the time to reclaim control of our digital privacy.
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