“I don’t have one single photograph of her, even though we spent the better part of our youth together. She never let anyone take pictures of her. Now that she is gone. I wish more than ever I had some sort of records of our time together. A proof of our love. But I have none.
But it is not entirely true (…).”
In this thought-provoking, highly accessible exploration of the issues around personal data-gathering, Julia Angwin provides a startling account of how we’re all being tracked, watched, studied, and sorted. Her own (often very funny) attempts to maintain her online privacy demonstrate the ubiquity of the dragnet—and the near impossibility of evading it. I’ll never use Google in the same way again.”
—Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of Happier at Home and The Happiness Project
Using your browser’s private browsing feature doesn’t provide as much privacy as you think. So, what really is your digital footprint?
Charlie Brooker: Facebook’s emotion study reveals it is hopelessly disconnected from emotional reality: that people get upset when people they care about are unhappy.
If you read between the lines of Apple’s recent announcements, you’ll find that the company is turning user privacy into a key competitive advantage.
A short story imagines life after the internet forgets.
Even though it was sunny, I knew something was wrong the moment I woke up the day of The Ruling. I didn’t check the news, I didn’t read the paper, I just felt something in the air—an electric current of negativity buzzing in my back pocket where I keep my phone. All morning it shook. It vibrated until it died.
A short film about what is called « webcam hacking ».
You cycle through your passwords. They tell a secret story. What’s most important to you, the things you think can’t be deciphered. Words and numbers stored in the lining of your heart. Your daughter’s name. Your daughter’s name backward. Your daughter’s name backward plus the year of her birth. They keep changing. They blur in the brain.
Over the last year, we’ve learned more and more about the National Security Agency’s spying programs. Indeed, there have now been so many revelations that it can be hard to keep them straight.
So here’s a handy guide to the most significant ways the NSA spies on people in the United States and around the world.
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