CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives.…
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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Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
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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:
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
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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
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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…