Tag: surveillance capitalism

Privacy is For Finding Out Who We Are When We Are Not Performing Ourselves

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"Privacy is essential to human agency and dignity. Denying someone privacy—even when it’s as seemingly small as a parent who won’t let their kid close the door—has a corrosive effect, eroding trust as well as our sense of interiority. When we scale up the individual to a body politic, it is the private sphere that’s … Continue reading Privacy is For Finding Out Who We Are When We Are Not Performing Ourselves

Coveillance

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"Increasingly powerful surveillance tools have shifted the power dynamics between people and institutions. To address this new dynamic, we’ve been creating a toolkit, in collaboration with the ACLU of Washington, that demystifies surveillance technologies in Seattle in the historical context of structural inequities in the United States."https://coveillance.org/

Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

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"...This paper will focus on corporate “third-party” tracking: the collection of personal information by companies that users don’t intend to interact with. It will shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking...The first step is to break the one-way mirror. We need to shed light on the tangled network of trackers … Continue reading Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

~ cafebedouin

"To examine our inboxes is to examine our lives: our desires and dreams, our families and careers, our status, our networks and our social groupings, our projects, our commerce, our politics, our secrets/lies/fetishes. Inboxes are anthropological goldmines, textual archives, psychological case studies, waiting to be plumbed and probed for the expansive cultural, ethical, epistemological, and … Continue reading The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

Safety or Stalker App?

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"...Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, is apparently ruining the lives of teenagers all across the United States...Parents can now remotely check their child’s browsing histories and social media accounts, watch their movements via motion-sensing cameras, and track everywhere they go with location-sharing apps. In a Pew Research Center study last year, 58 percent … Continue reading Safety or Stalker App?

Duckduckgo.com

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"Virtually all internet users tend to be Google search engine users, by default. The main strategy for Google is to try to hold on to the users it has by implementing better security and privacy protection measures. This is something definitely on their agenda, but the issue still remains that user data is tracked. Therefore, … Continue reading Duckduckgo.com

Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

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"We audit their practices to ensure they are complying with industry codes of conduct,” said Bowden. “No Google data is used. This extensive audit process includes regular reporting, interviews, and evaluation to ensure vendors meet specified requirements around consent, opt-out, and privacy protections." —Ava Kofman, "Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data … Continue reading Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones