surveillance
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Secure Your Gadgets With Mozilla’s ‘Privacy Not Included’ List
If you need a little help figuring out how to lock down your smart home devices (or those you’re considering purchasing), Mozilla is here to help. I recommend spending some time scanning through its “Privacy Not Included” list and bookmarking the pages for any devices you own. Not only does the site round up all…
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How The Brady Bunch Helped Invent Surveillance Capitalism
As a kid growing up in the 1970s, one of my favourite after school shows was The Brady Bunch. Each afternoon I’d tune in to find out more about this blended family of six kids, a housekeeper and a widowed husband and his wife. But the show’s impact has had a broader, and totally accidental,…
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Protecting Your Online Privacy
There’s no doubt that we are the most heavily surveilled and monitored generation to have ever existed. The secret police forces of the Cold War would never have imagined a world where tracking people would be so easy. In many cases, we have given up our privacy and anonymity in order to access online services.…
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The Cambridge Analytica Incident Is Why You Should Be Careful On Social Media
I read an interesting quote over the weekend. To paraphrase, it said that if someone built a massive data gathering system a couple of decades ago, it would be called a surveillance operation. Today, it’s called social media. What we now know is that a data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested data from about 50…