A computer displays a day in the life of the common man in the early years of the 21st century seen through internet video data, using a basic chronological keyword research : ‘Moonset’, ‘Sunrise’, ‘Waking’, ‘Breakfast’…
As we record the littlest details of our lives on the Internet, it tends to become an incredible humankind testimony for the future and human Memory now depends on computer’s hard drives.
Datacoup, one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data, will pay up to $10 for access to your social network accounts, credit card transaction records, and other personal information, and will sell insights gleaned from that data to companies looking for information on consumer behavior.
Sexualitics tries to contribute to human sexuality understanding through a Big Data approach.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a Google Trends-like tool called Porngram that maps the evolution of keywords in the titles of 800,000 porn videos.
Federico Zannier has data mined himself and sold his own personal data on Kickstarter. But how much is he worth?
“People should be asking themselves what happens with this data, what type of inferences can be drawn from this data,” says Marc Goodman.
“If your self-tracking health device shows that you lead a sedentary lifestyle, then maybe you will pay more for insurance,” Consumers should be careful about letting any company track health data that can be used against them.
A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online.
Explore how valuable your data are with this interactive calculator. While the multibillion-dollar data broker industry profits from the trade of thousands of details about individuals, those bits of information are often sold for a fraction of a penny apiece.
This infographic presents the categories of information that social networks can make available to other applications. You authorize these applications by, say, logging in to a Web site with your Twitter account, or by playing Farmville on Facebook. The applications, in turn, often give data about your activities back to the social network. These exchanges of information take place through what’s known as an application programming interface, or an A.P.I..
Facebook has found new, far more intrusive ways to exploit your personal information. The company will now use information from your web browsing history to display tailored advertisements on its site.
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