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‘The six terrible ways your life will change when Net Neutrality dies’
“Believers say such trawling will get customers cheaper and better products. But consumer advocates accuse the industry of deliberate vagueness about its intentions.”
http://mashable.com/2017/02/09/when-net-neutrality-dies/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/the-six-terrible-ways-your-life-will-change-when-net-neutrality-dies/1565
How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World
“Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/how-peter-thiel-s-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/1563 https://mastodon.social/media/qWPegAe2-IM7HsDA1H0
“Fairness is the alibi for reducing human subjects to attributes only expressible as data, which makes us easier to exploit. Algorithms transfer risk from their operators to those caught up within their gears”
http://reallifemag.com/rule-by-nobody/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/rule-by-nobody/1560 https://mastodon.social/media/Matk6MHQV26AYiDv4LA
‘Inauguration-protest arrests lead to Facebook data prosecution’
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/10/inauguration-protest-arrests-lead-to-facebook-data-prosecution/
So ‘Be More Careful on Facebook’:
http://incisive.nu/2017/facebook/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/inauguration-protest-arrests-lead-to-facebook-data-prosecution/1549 https://mastodon.social/media/PPwFYWLq_N0tUq8Itac
‘Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers’
“people can use our cross-browser tracking to violate users’ privacy by providing customized ads”
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/now-sites-can-fingerprint-you-online-even-when-you-use-multiple-browsers/1546 https://mastodon.social/media/yGIp0YCbe4iU8X7Gy3c
‘What It Takes To Truly Delete Data’
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-it-takes-to-truly-delete-data/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/what-it-takes-to-truly-delete-data/1535 https://mastodon.social/media/zygtqVoFdVODduxWsiQ
‘Top iOS dating apps are exposing your personal life to hackers’
“‘The general practice means holding and capturing every little piece of information you can in case you could potentially use them in the future…’ This makes the data vulnerable to hackers…”
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-dating-apps-exposing-your-personal-life-to-hackers
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/top-ios-dating-apps-are-exposing-your-personal-life-to-hackers/1534 https://mastodon.social/media/mv2THRHhoM6kJDzkoCw
‘It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees’
“Who we feel empathy for is strongly influenced by irrelevant factors such as race and attractiveness and similarity…”
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/it-s-ridiculous-to-use-virtual-reality-to-empathize-with-refugees/1532 https://mastodon.social/media/FaODSUaw1DaulcqsKqU
‘How much is your personal data worth?’
On some of the data bought and sold by data brokers.
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/much-personal-data-worth/
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/how-much-is-your-personal-data-worth/1531 https://mastodon.social/media/W4Ddtc8CfELKwtLUl_k
“[Internet of Things] devices regularly stream data and metadata to the internet for processing… Users usually don’t have access to this data, and do not know what their devices reveal about themselves or their family.”
https://medium.com/@privacyint/time-to-decide-on-internet-of-things-liability-c39cee0142ff
On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/time-to-decide-on-internet-of-things-liability/1530 https://mastodon.social/media/WU-xNCndXqrna7ZdcGQ
