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.

Deep fried data

Statistics / archive, machine learning, privacy

Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…
Breaking the algorithmic black box

Infographics / facebook, privacy

The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
US surveillance flight paths for the FBI and Homeland Security

Maps / BuzzFeed, government, privacy, surveillance

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

Statistics / metadata, privacy

Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…
A month in the life of personal location and messaging metadata

Self-surveillance / mobile, privacy

Data researcher and artist Mimi Onuoha looked at the personal location and messaging…
Fun in exchange for personal data

Data Art / physical, privacy

Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…
Surveillance selfie with cell phone metadata

Self-surveillance / government, mobile, privacy

Just because there’s no content that comes with the metadata doesn’t make the latter useless.
How stolen data affects you

Statistics / New York Times, privacy, quiz

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…
A surveillance system that watches over an entire city

Statistics / privacy, security

Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…
Browser extension shows where you really are on the web

Self-surveillance / browser, privacy

The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…
Upgraded self, but there’s a catch

Self-surveillance / privacy, Washington Post

With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…
Dick pics, privacy, and the NSA

News / privacy

Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…
Health data breaches and fines

Infographics / breaches, privacy, ProPublica

Sisi Wei and Charles Ornstein for ProPublica highlight reported data breaches to the…
Face sculptures using DNA from chewed gum

Data Art / DNA, privacy

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

Data Sharing / lunch talk, privacy

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

Data Sharing / Ben Goldacre, privacy

You make and publish bits of data about yourself, intentionally and unintentionally, and…
Revealing location history via your phone’s Wi-Fi

Data Sharing / privacy, Wi-Fi

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

Maps / human, location, movement, privacy

A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
Filing cabinet follows people around, like a data trail

Data Art / privacy, tracking

Jaap de Maat, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art, rigged…
Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends

Statistics / facebook, privacy, sexual orientation

Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…

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