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Intelligence services collect metadata on the communication of all citizens. Politicians would have us believe that this data doesn’t say all that much. A reader of De Correspondent put this to the test and demonstrated otherwise: metadata reveals a lot more about your life than you think.
The agreements of the 50 most popular websites in America are composed of 145,641 words. This is why.
Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong examine how the law will respond as we become more cyborg-like, and the divide between human and machine becomes ever-more unstable. In particular, they consider how the law of surveillance will shift as we develop from humans who use machines into humans who partially are machines or, at least, who depend on machines pervasively for our most human-like activities.
Full online law MOOC on surveillance.
Each kid is unique, but there’s one thing all students have in common: They are data-generating machines. This tsunami of data is absorbed and stored by school districts, state databases, educational service providers, websites, and app makers. Most of this data collection is well intentioned, but not all.
“Increasingly, corporate officers find themselves struggling to decipher subtle social norms and make ethical choices that are more befitting of philosophers than business managers or lawyers.”
On social media sites, teens protect their privacy, transmit hidden messages and even hijack advertisers’ algorithms.
Srsly, kill the web bugs.
On retaining library data for analysis.
Wow. Missouri is schooling the rest of the US!
How much access to your (and your friends') personal data are you prepared to share for access to free mobile apps? I suspect the amount is significantly less than that which you actually agreed to share when blindly accepting the Terms of Service.
"Terms And Conditions May Apply" viewing guide.
So, like every other one of the world's 1.28 billion monthly Facebook users, you blindly agreed to Facebook's Terms and Conditions without reading the fine print.
Media critic Jay Rosen says a controversial mood study shows how few rights and how little control Facebook users actually have.
Reskilling book: fragile knowledge, inert knowledge, naive knowledge, ritual knowledge.
The library is one of the few institutions that has the potential to organize communities to access and produce information responsibly and safely.
The agency collected and stored intimate chats, photos, and emails belonging to innocent Americans—and secured them so poorly that reporters can now browse them at will.
Internet surveillance gets 30 minutes on Morning Edition.
Marketers can use Facebook and non-Facebook browsing together for Facebook ads.
Online marketers are increasingly trying to track users offline as well.