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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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