privacy

As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…

We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…

Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…

Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…

The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…

Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…

Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…

Data researcher and artist Mimi Onuoha looked at the personal location and messaging…

Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…

Just because there’s no content that comes with the metadata doesn’t make the latter useless.

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…

Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…

The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…

With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…

Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…

Sisi Wei and Charles Ornstein for ProPublica highlight reported data breaches to the…

In her 2012 piece Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg used DNA found in public…

Think big data, and it’s tough not to associate it with big corporations…

You make and publish bits of data about yourself, intentionally and unintentionally, and…

When you have your phone’s Wi-Fi turned on, even if you’re not connected…