Last Thursday, Mike Seay received a mailer from OfficeMax addressed to “Mike Seay/Daughter Killed in Car Crash/Or Current Business.” Even in a society grown numb to targeted marketing, the story of the letter has prompted outrage and confusion. It has raised new questions about what types of information data brokers gather and why.
MyPermissions automatically scans your apps permissions and let’s you know when new apps access your personal information.
Currently our online personal information, is sold without our consent. If Facebook allows us to download our profile data, we should be able to monetize this data ourselves. Commodify.us is a web application that allows people to visualize and license their Facebook data directly to marketers.
They make money from your data. Why shouldn’t you?
BrowserSpy.dk is the place where you can see just how much information your browser reveales about you and your system. Privacy to the ultimate test
Your personal info should be your own. But these days thousands of companies invisibly collect your data on the Internet. We make tools that put you back in control of your online privacy. Used by over a million people, Disconnect lets you visualize & block the invisible websites that track you
This Mozilla Privacy Policy explains generally how we receive information about you, and what we do with that information once we have it.
The idea of selling your personal data isn’t one that sits well with most people, yet. Nonetheless, most people are doing so whether they know it or not.
In the course of your digital life, you’ve likely clicked the “agree” button on countless privacy policies. The Zero Knowledge Privacy Foundation tells you what you need to know about these important documents.
Some say you should only be concerned about privacy if you have something to hide. The Zero Knowledge Privacy Foundation hired Newsbound to help explain why this is the wrong way to think about the issue.
A promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. It combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa (“obsessions”), which interact more with you (“stalkers”), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely (“liabilities”).
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