As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…
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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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
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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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Revealing location history via your phone’s Wi-Fi
When you have your phone’s Wi-Fi turned on, even if you’re not connected…
