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E5 - Big Data Must Read

Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her Pregnancy From Big Data

Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data? Thinking about technology—the way we use it and the way it uses us—is her professional life’s work. Pregnant women, she knew, are a marketing gold mine; a pregnant woman’s marketing data is worth 15 times as much as the average person’s. Could Vertesi, a self-declared “conscientious objector” of Google ever since 2012, when they announced to users that they’d be able to read every email and chat, navigate all the human and consumer interactions having a baby would require and keep big data from ever finding out?

— Read on Think Progress
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Do you have something to hide?

Do you know that you are being watched?
You wouldn’t let that happen in real world
Would you allow a stranger to enter your home, and look around?
When you send an email, it’s like a postcard, several agents (digital and human) copy and read it on the way. Would you accept it in real life?
Why accepting this in your digital life?

— Read on I have something to hide
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A day in the life of a data mined kid

Education, like pretty much everything else in our lives these days, is driven by data. Our childrens’ data. A whole lot of it.

Nearly everything they do at school can be — and often is — recorded and tracked, and parents don’t always know what information is being collected, where it’s going, or how it’s being used.

— Read on marketplace.org
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Microsoft Users Now Have to Opt Out of Having Third Parties Track Their Data

Microsoft on Friday updated its approach to “Do Not Track” for all future versions of its Web browsers, saying it “will no longer enable it as the default state.”

“Do Not Track” is all about protecting your online privacy. It’s a simple mechanism on most Web browsers that lets you opt out of tracking from third parties, including websites you don’t visit.

— Read on Slate
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Privacy is a four-letter word It’s time to clean up our language

You and me? We’re being tracked whether we like it or not.

Use a web browser, apps on your phone — there’s a company (or companies) out there amassing reams of data about every click, tap, photo, song, notification, or icon in your digital life. But don’t get up in arms over the loss of your “privacy”. This word, “privacy”? — it’s a problem.

— Read on Medium - Un-Hackable
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Hashtag Data Positive

Privacy, safety, and security aren’t sexy topics, and neither are condoms and STIs. But understanding them is critically important to being able to enjoy sex responsibly. And sex positivity, as a social construct, recast “consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, [encouraging] sexual pleasure and experimentation.”

— Read on Medium - Un-Hackable
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