Data Sharing

It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…

We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…

You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…

Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its…

Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected…

The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…

Rebekah Jones, GIS manager for the Florida Department of Health, was fired a…

Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…

Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…

Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…

Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…

Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…

Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…

Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…