by Julia Bernd | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Project News, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
To help CS teachers tie privacy concepts more closely to traditional CS curriculum content — i.e. programming — the Teaching Privacy team created three new programming exercises to add to our Teaching Privacy/TROPE curriculum: Mapping Geotagged Tweets:...
by Julia Bernd | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
This happened a couple months ago: An acquaintance (we’ll call him Egbert) who was estranged from his wife (we’ll call her Namaa) became drunkenly angry about her refusal to communicate with him, and began talking at length about how he was going to kill her. Not just...
by Melody Valdez | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, You're Leaving Footprints
Have you ever wondered how companies are able to show advertisements targeted specifically towards your wants and needs? Researchers from Columbia University developed a tool called Sunlight that aims to improve transparency between users’ information, such as...
by Melody Valdez | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog, Online Is Real, You're Leaving Footprints
Do you have your own Facebook account? Are you among the one billion users active on Facebook? According to researchers from The University of Cambridge and Stanford University, a Facebook user’s psychological make-up could be determined based on their activity on the...
by Melody Valdez | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
With the rapid growth of the Internet in today’s digital age, resulting in Big Data that is continuously growing and replicating, it is becoming impossible to completely delete any information that one shares online. It is important to realize that others can...
by Melody Valdez | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
The world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin Guzman, otherwise known as “El Chapo”, has been hiding from the authorities for months after escaping from a maximum-security prison in July. When his son publishes a picture taken in a restaurant on...
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