Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian: In at least one previous…
privacy
When data is flowing, it’s important we keep watch on who has access to our identities, activities, and the things and people we love.
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
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What Facebook and Google know about you
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…
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Steve Jobs on data privacy
From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…
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Predictive policing algorithms used secretly in New Orleans
False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn't stuff you just mess around with.
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Smart surveilled city
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.
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The personal data you generate when you book a flight
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…
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Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…
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800 pages of Tinder data
Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…
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Uber got hacked and then paid the hackers $100k to not tell anyone
This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg: Hackers stole the…
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz: Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have…
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Roomba selling maps of home interiors
Newer Roomba vacuums form a map of your house to more efficiently clean…
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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…
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Love in the age of data, without data
We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…
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Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…
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Deep fried data
Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…
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Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
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US surveillance flight paths for the FBI and Homeland Security
Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…
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Metadata surveillance investigation
Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…
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A month in the life of personal location and messaging metadata
Data researcher and artist Mimi Onuoha looked at the personal location and messaging…
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Fun in exchange for personal data
Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…
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Surveillance selfie with cell phone metadata
Just because there's no content that comes with the metadata doesn't make the latter useless.
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How stolen data affects you
You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…
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A surveillance system that watches over an entire city
Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…
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Browser extension shows where you really are on the web
The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…
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Upgraded self, but there’s a catch
With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…
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Dick pics, privacy, and the NSA
Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…
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Health data breaches and fines
Sisi Wei and Charles Ornstein for ProPublica highlight reported data breaches to the…
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Face sculptures using DNA from chewed gum
In her 2012 piece Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg used DNA found in public…
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Being dangerous
Think big data, and it’s tough not to associate it with big corporations…
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When data gets creepy
You make and publish bits of data about yourself, intentionally and unintentionally, and…
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