Tag: privacy
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Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor
Written by Ciara Byrne on Fast Company.
“Personal data is used to deny low-income people access to resources or opportunities, but it’s also used to target them with predatory marketing for payday loans or even straight-up scams.”
“ Undocumented immigrants, day laborers, homeless people, and those with criminal convictions suffer from another data extreme: living beyond the reach of the data collection systems needed to thrive in society, they gain so much “privacy” that they become increasingly invisible. Living in this surveillance gap can be as damaging as living under constant surveillance, and is often a reaction to it.”
Read ‘Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor’ on the Fast Company site.
Tagged with: systemic discrimination, privacy, algorithms.
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Prejudice, tech’s systemic issues and responsive images
The best bookmarks I saved in Week 11, 2019.
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Dangerous data and understanding privilege
The best bookmarks I saved in Week 10, 2019.
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Silicon Valley Darkness and Being a Woman
I’m not committing to a weekly anything! Incidentally, here’s the best bookmarks I saved in Week 9, 2019.
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Apple Is Removing 'Do Not Track' From Safari
Written by Kashmir Hill on Gizmodo.
“Almost every internet browser has an option in its privacy settings called “Do Not Track,” which, if you turn it on, sends an invisible request on your behalf to all the websites you visit telling them not to track you. It’s been around for years, but as Gizmodo recently reported, it doesn’t do anything because almost no websites actually honor the request not to be tracked because the government never forced them to comply with it.”
“For that story, we asked all the browser-providing companies why they still had the option, given that it could mislead users into thinking it was actually protecting their privacy.”
Read ‘Apple Is Removing 'Do Not Track' From Safari’ on the Gizmodo site.
Tagged with: do not track, browsers, privacy.
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Thunder Nerds Podcast
On Saturday evening, I had a lovely chat with Jenell Pizarro, Brian Hinton and Frederick Philip Von Weiss for their Thunder Nerds podcast. You can watch the video or listen to the audio on the Thunder Nerds site.
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Insecure
The state of sharing on the web is broken. After the Snowden revelations, it became clear that my sharing “content” willy-nilly was a potential danger to me.
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Beyond my means
When I wrote about owning and controlling my own content, I talked about trying to keep my “content” in its canonical location on my site, and then syndicating it to social networks and other sites.
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Owning and controlling my own content
One of the ultimate goals we have at Ind.ie is owning and controlling our own data. That means I want to have ownership and control over my own personal information, rather than it being in the hands of big corporations.
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Podcasts, February 2018
In February, there were two podcasts released featuring interviews with me! Both focused on ethical design and privacy. CodeNewbie CodeNewbie Season 3 Episode 4: What should developers know about online privacy?
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