Off Grid is an adventure, satire and stealth game about a mishap antihero. You play an everyman pencil pusher, who is oblivious to the city’s prying and spying, corporate-sponsored government until a series of dark events unfold.
The contemporary storyline follows real-world events surrounding data privacy, and gameplay utilises unique mechanics that allow you to manipulate the world and people around you with the data they unwittingly leave behind.
Federico Zannier has data mined himself and sold his own personal data on Kickstarter. But how much is he worth?
Every day, companies are gathering and sharing information about you, even when you aren’t logged in.
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone has started shipping to its first wave of buyers. Designed to put user privacy front and centre, it focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user.
In the 3rd episode of this four-part series, Dr Aleks Krotoski gives the lowdown on how commerce has colonised the web and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be ‘free’ sites and services in hidden ways. She is joined by some of the most influential business leaders of today’s web, including Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon), Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), Chad Hurley (CEO of YouTube), Bill Gates, Martha Lane Fox and Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix).
Aleks Krotoski also explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and what this may mean for our notions of privacy.
Facebook released the results of a study where its data scientists skewed the positive or negative emotional content that appeared in the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users over the course of a week in order to study their reaction.
The study was almost certainly legal, a line in the terms of service users agree to when they sign up cedes control of data for “data analysis, testing, [and] research”. But the reaction from many users and commentators has been pretty negative.
Facebook caused a stir over the weekend with the revelation that it had been altering the content of some users’ News Feeds in an attempt to study the psychology behind what causes people to post…
Based on The Next Web’s review, Facebook Home looks to be underwhelming. However, the value Facebook gets from your phone could be big.
The courts have long debated on if cell phones can be searched during an arrest without a warrant. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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