This post explained where data brokers get their data, what information they share with Facebook, or what this means for your privacy. Who has your information, how they get it, and what they do with it?
“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 few years ago Disney introduced Finger Scanners in their Theme Parks. These machines are used to keep Disney World customers from sharing or re-selling their admission tickets, and are part of a general and growing police-state climate at the parks that includes routine bag-searches at each park entrance.
We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the location of an individual is specified hourly, and with a spatial resolution equal to that given by the carrier’s antennas, four spatio-temporal points are enough to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals.
These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual’s privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals.
What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code — a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse published a list of data brokers and possibilities to opt out.
This week on the podcast we’re talking about blocking YouTube ads, the difference between antivirus and anti-malware, and app updates galore. We’re also answering your questions about international calling on the cheap, how to pick a Windows laptop, and BitTorrent privacy.
One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping over a plane.
Anonymity came back into vogue. Today, there are literally dozens of anonymous sharing apps that allow you to vent, confess, or share secrets with strangers while going incognito. In an attempt to catalogue the emerging trend, I downloaded 25 different anonymous apps and tested each one. Here’s the complete, exhaustive rundown.
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