by Julia Bernd | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
What can a computer figure out about a human? Not just where you are and how you spend your money, but what kind of person you are. One intriguing study last year showed correlations between what people Liked on Facebook and various demographic factors, personal...
by Julia Bernd | Aug 14, 2014 | Blog, There's No Anonymity, You're Leaving Footprints
A (relatively) new tracking technique called canvas fingerprinting allows websites and services to uniquely identify people’s devices by including a hidden image on web pages. It can get around most of the common methods and tools people use to keep their...
by Julia Bernd | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, You're Leaving Footprints
An explanation of the iPhone’s “Frequent Locations” feature, and instructions for turning it off if you don’t want it to track and correlate geolocation data this way. However, as this article points out, turning off “Frequent Locations” doesn’t erase the data your...
by Julia Bernd | Jul 28, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
We recommend this visually engaging video from the media literacy organization Commonsense Media: Digital Footprint The video uses analogies to tangible physical processes and objects like footprints, photocopiers, and jumbotrons to make its point succinctly and...
by brynamo | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog, Online Is Real, You Can't Escape, You're Leaving Footprints
With the internet of things spreading into every facet of our lives, its important to think about what we are giving up. A practical joke perpetrated at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing raises some serious questions about our privacy as more of the...
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