While social media revolutionizes how the world responds to political and social events, it may be a double-edged sword. Researchers warned that the tendency to fixate on a small number of opinions encourages the proliferation of rumors, misinformation, and political polarization.
Do you care about your personal data? We provide instructions to remove your account or public profile on most popular websites, including Skype, Facebook, Windows Live, Hotmail / Live, Twitter, MSN / Messenger, Google and many more.
Currently our online personal information, is sold without our consent. If Facebook allows us to download our profile data, we should be able to monetize this data ourselves. Commodify.us is a web application that allows people to visualize and license their Facebook data directly to marketers.
They make money from your data. Why shouldn’t you?
We asked a bunch of people to do an interview about online privacy. What they didn’t know is that the interview was about *their* online privacy. Information was found using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Tumblr, and more.
If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here’s how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.
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Facebook has found new, far more intrusive ways to exploit your personal information. The company will now use information from your web browsing history to display tailored advertisements on its site.
The NSA describes anyone a target communicates with directly as ‘one hop’ away. So how many people are three ‘hops’ from you?
How long can you hold out? You’ll see a short list of privacy questions and a ticking timer. Good luck.
A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services and social networks. Find out how to delete your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts and more social and web services.
A promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. It combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa (“obsessions”), which interact more with you (“stalkers”), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely (“liabilities”).
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