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New Addition: Programming for Privacy!

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:...

Oakland Police Scandal Uncovered Through Facebook and Instagram

by Florin Langer | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control

Oakland police officers’ likes, follows, and comments implicated them in a sexual misconduct investigation. Some had strong privacy settings but some didn’t, and investigators seem to have pieced together their roles through the profiles of those that didn’t. Some of...

It’s Not Just Social Media

by Julia Bernd | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, There's No Anonymity

Social media may be the first thing most people think of when the subject of online privacy comes up, but online games are another major way your privacy can be compromised. Check out the TouchArcade article here: Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play...

Thought Medical Records Were Sacred? Think Again!

by Gerald Friedland | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Search Is Improving, You Can't Escape

A recent column in Scientific American explains how trading supposedly “anonymized” data about patients’ health history and prescription purchases has become a multibillion-dollar business: How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records And an...

Giving Up Your Privacy For a Facebook Quiz

by Melody Valdez | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control

Recently, the “Most Used Words” Facebook quiz has been gaining popularity with over sixteen million users across the globe. However, a majority of these users are unaware that playing the quiz discloses personal data about themselves to a company called...

Slipping Through The Backdoor of Your iPhone

by Melody Valdez | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Someone Could Listen

Last month, the Obama administration decided that it won’t push tech companies to put encryption “backdoors” in their products. This means that the companies are not required to provide law enforcement and government agencies with easy access to...
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