‘Big data.’ ‘Metadata.’ ‘Raw data.’ B.J. Mendelson has a passion for privacy, so he created a book “Privacy” from his collection of essays on privacy protection. This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled “Big Trouble in Little Data.” We felt it was worth sharing. (@bjmendelson) Data processed by autonomous machines employing ‘machine learning.’ By […]
Children and Internet? Almost all parents are concerned about the dangers such as violence, bullying, and pornography on the web. Safe alternatives suggest offers explicitly aimed at the young target audience, such as child-friendly sites for entertainment and educational sites. Nobody expects anything terrible on these colorful, seemingly harmless pages. But appearances are deceptive, as
Spyware Warning: Web Trackers Are Spying on our Children on the Internet Weiterlesen
Who buys cookies in the supermarket, pays the same price as all other customers. But the Internet has its own laws: More and more retailers rely on “dynamic pricing”. Behind this is a sophisticated algorithm: what price a customer pays for a product depends not only on the time, but also on factors such as
Why Should I Pay More? How to Avoid Dynamic Pricing Weiterlesen
Every trip to the Internet leaves traces, with which users can be clearly identified. Because when the router dials in it’s assigned a unique worldwide number combination, the IP address. Even weeks later you can find out when and with which IP address a website was visited. Why should you, therefore, change the IP address?
We are increasingly online and continuously leaving data traces on the Internet. According to “Online Study 2017” by ARD and ZDF, more than 50 million people call information from the Internet every day in Germany alone. On average, every German is on the net for almost two and a half hours a day – 21
Naked In The Net: What Our Internet Data Reveals About Us Weiterlesen
The case was one of the biggest data scandals of 2016! Web of Trust (WOT) with 140 million users is one of the most popular browser extensions – turned out to be a nasty data spy or as the Germans called it “Datenschleuder” with translates to Sling Shot. The service collected information about the browsing
Only The Tip Of The Iceberg: Data Scandal At Web Of Trust Weiterlesen
The 29th of October is the birthday of the Internet, on this day of the year 1969, two mainframes at American universities exchanged the first Internet message. 29 years later, Google set a milestone with the invention of their search engine. For users who took their first steps into the Internet at that time, Google
Mega Data-leech Google: Where Data Protection is Just Another Word Weiterlesen
Today not only posters, events and television debates decide the outcome of elections. Those who want to win the votes of the citizens must personally address them offering solutions for their individual problems. This applies particularly to swing voters and voters who are still undecided. In 2016, the US election showed that a personality profile
