By Jill Pineau on May 13, 2022 | Tagged with data, Data Collection, privacy, surveillance
The Surveillance Economy: How Amazon Uses Your Alexa Data to Drive Profits Guest Post by Jill Pineau Voice AI assistants collect massive amounts of highly personal user data. Of the corporations that sell these devices – including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon – Amazon’s data harvesting is arguably the most concerning, as the company itself […]
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By Rachael Bradshaw on September 21, 2021 | Tagged with Data Collection, democracy, Digital Activism, Online Safety, police, Politics, privacy, safety, Social media, surveillance
The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: Digital Activism in the Era of Mass Surveillance by Leila Matte-Kaci On December 4th, 2020, the State Council of France expanded three decrees to widen the scope of police surveillance. [1, 11, 28] French police will now be able to track citizens or groups whose activities indicate that they […]
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By Rachael Bradshaw on July 27, 2021 | Tagged with big data, data, Data Collection, facebook, google, Online Presence, Politics, privacy, Search Engines, Social media, surveillance
Algorithms & The Death of Democratic Discourse by Christian Koch Our entire digital history tracked— and is still being tracked. Platforms like Google, Facebook, and others collect data from links clicked, time spent on a particular page, whether or not the content is shared, and even the most seemingly inconsequential choices— all to build pictures […]
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By Rachael Bradshaw on May 18, 2021 | Tagged with Advertising, anonymity, data, Data Collection, online privacy, privacy, Social media, surveillance
Privacy vs. Anonymity by Misha Khawaja and Ali Albastaki Do you know the difference between online privacy and anonymity? This excellent video by Misha Khawaja and Ali Albastaki from the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto, Mississauga does a great job of explaining the difference! Which is more important to you […]
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By samantha summers on July 11, 2019 | Tagged with astrology, cybersecurity, data, Data Collection, Digital identity, Digital literacy, Hacking, intellectual property, Network Smarts, privacy, safety, Social media, social_network, surveillance
We all can do more to protect ourselves online, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you out, we’ve come up with simple steps each Zodiac sign can take to increase their online safety. Let us know if your sign’s advice speaks to you, and let us know how […]
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By Jason Cheung on April 24, 2019 | Tagged with biometric data, Digital identity, identity theft, surveillance
In this blog post, we will look at: What are voice biometrics? Why would companies want to start using voice biometrics? Are there risks in using voice biometrics? We may be becoming more familiar, and even more comfortable, with using biometric identifiers for authentication or security keys. A common usage of a type of biometric […]
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By Jason Cheung on April 2, 2019 | Tagged with anti-virus, Government Surveillance, Hacking, malware, privacy, smartphone, spyware, surreptitious, surveillance
A report by Vice News [1] published last week points to a report made by the cybersecurity group Security Without Borders [2] about Android malware that disguises itself as innocuous apps on Google’s Play Store. While disguising malicious software as harmless applications is not a technique that is new [3], the article published by Vice […]
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