From Campaign War Room to Big-Data Broom
By MICAH COHEN, nytimes, 061913
By merging voter files with information scoured from the Web, political candidates hope to be able to closely tailor their appeals to each potential supporter.
Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contract employee and whistle-blower, has provided evidence that the government has phone record metadata on all Verizon customers, and probably on every American, going back seven years. This metadata is extremely revealing; investigators mining it might be able to infer whether we have an illness or an addiction, what our religious affiliations and political activities are, and so on.
The Criminal N.S.A.
By JENNIFER STISA GRANICK and CHRISTOPHER JON SPRIGMAN
Published: June 27, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contract employee and whistle-blower, has provided evidence that the government has phone record metadata on all Verizon customers, and probably on every American, going back seven years. This metadata is extremely revealing; investigators mining it might be able to infer whether we have an illness or an addiction, what our religious affiliations and political activities are, and so on.
New Ways Marketers Are Manipulating Data to Influence You
By TANZINA VEGA, NyTimes
Information from social media, credit card histories and Web habits helps marketers create advertisements that are increasingly personalized and nuanced. READ MORE…
Ways to Make Your Online Tracks Harder to Follow
By NATASHA SINGER, nytimes
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/ways-to-make-your-online-tracks-harder-to-follow-2/?_r=0
There are ways to minimize our digital footprints and at least nominally impede surveillance. READ MORE…
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
Use a Proxy Server, like Proxify, to make web surfing anonymous
Use a search engine that doesn't track you, like www.duckduckgo.com
Do-Not-Track Talks Could Be Running Off the Rails
By NATASHA SINGER
Privacy advocates, for their part, argue that consumers have a right to choose not to be tracked by companies they don’t do business with. If the price consumers have to pay is more generic ads that are not tailored to them, they say, so be it.
“Most people don’t realize the extent to which this brazen online tracking is done, but when the practice is described, they want to be able to control it,” John M. Simpson, the privacy project director at Consumer Watchdog, wrote in a blog post earlier this week. “Why should a company I know nothing about, have no say over and no relationship with be able to collect information about my online activity?”
If the tracking protection group of the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, the international standards body that has been trying to create a consensus for the privacy mechanisms...
UK asks Google to delete data collected by Street View cars
Kounteya Sinha, TNN | Jun 24, 2013, 05.54 AM IST
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