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Surveillance: state vs businesses
“Distinction between state surveillance and private surveillance is, to my mind, totally overstated.” – Cory Doctorow
Read the ‘terms and conditions’ carefully!
“Realizing that the facebook app uploaded the contents of my sim card to facebook servers was a groundbreaking realization for me.” – Harlo Holmes
Protect My Privacy
Protect My Privacy (PMP) lets you protect the personal information on your iPhone. It provides a layer of security between apps and the operating system, thereby giving the control back to the user. When an app attempts to access any protected information, an alert is shown and you have the option to “Protect” or “Allow”. The software is unique in that rather than merely blocking access to the information, which could cause the app to have unexpected behaviour or even crash, PMP instead supplies fake replacement information, such as randomized contact names, or a location specified by you. You can quickly switch between real and fake information, even while the app is running. PMP also provides automatic protection using crowd-sourced recommendations, this uses information from previous manual decisions made by other users for the same app.
The Smartphone Society
Today, in a period characterized by financialization and globalization, where “information” is king, the idea of any commodity defining an era might seem quaint. But commodities are no less important today, and people’s relationships to them remain central to understanding society. If the automobile was fundamental to grasping the last century, the smartphone is the defining commodity of our era.
Untangling the social web
Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly usefu.
How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service
Intelligence services collect metadata on the communication of all citizens. Politicians would have us believe that this data doesn’t say all that much. A reader of De Correspondent put this to the test and demonstrated otherwise: metadata reveals a lot more about your life than you think.
A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going
An algorithm can better predict your future movements by getting a little help from your friends.
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