Category: #foundprivacy

  • Electing a President in a Microtargeted World

    And how has the digital space changed what you do?It’s a really intriguing space for us, because we’ve spent so much time and effort trying to get information out of people, calling them, knocking on their doors, etc. And now suddenly, through Twitter and Facebook and other online social networking, people are volunteering this information […]

  • Gratis docu over je privacy

    Panopticon – de docu over jouw privacy from PV producties on Vimeo. #docu #facebook #foundprivacy #lawandpolitics #lookingforsolutions #presentations #privacy #security #video

  • The End of Crypto

    #cryptography #diy #endofcyrpto #foundprivacy #gpg #pgp #presentations #ziitrain

  • Save the world?

    #diy #facebook #foundprivacy #gaengenviertel #plakat #poster

  • Amanda Todd’s mother responds to bullied teen’s video as suicide probe grows

    Todd’s notes said the man ordered her to “put on a show for me,” or he would send around the webcam pictures. Todd said he knew her address, her school, her friends and her family.She said she was later alerted by police that he had followed through with the threat. “I then got really sick,” […]

  • Christopher Steiner on algorithms

    Christopher Steiner, author of Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule the World, discusses his new book. Steiner originally set about studying the prevalence of algorithms in Wall Street stock trading but soon found they were everywhere. Stock traders were the first to use algorithms as a substitute for human judgment to make trades automatically, […]

  • Fooling Facebook: Telling Lies To Protect Your Privacy

    Sounds like a hopelessly naive idea to me… “With a nod toward Bayes theorem, Ludlow basically wants to confuse the advertisers trying to profile him and the algorithmic machines that are trying to make predictions about him by throwing lots of false information about himself onto their radars. So he’s become a digital Scheherazade, weaving […]

  • Piwik als alternatief voor Google Analytics

    Ook Google Analytics valt onder de cookiewet. De cookies die deze websiteanalysetool zet, zijn immers niet puur en alleen bedoeld om de eindgebruiker een gepaste webpagina voor te schotelen. De webmaster kan extra informatie krijgen over bezoekers met deze cookies, en dat maakt de cookies toestemmingsplichtig. Los daarvan wordt Analytics gezien als privacytechnisch dubieus, met […]

  • Heath Bunting on the hierarchy between the physical and the virtual

    Before the Internet, you knew where your virtual body was – it was at the tax office or the police station, or at school. And if a revolution did take place you could go and burn those records, but now people put all their data on different platforms and different machines and think it’s fun. […]

  • Some fun security software from @moxie

    Click this link #diy #foundprivacy #lookingforsolutions #security #software