Category Archives: data broker
Digital Guinea Pigs: Downplaying Online Experimentation
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/hooked-downplaying-online-experimentation/ Figure #1. Wire me in! (Graphis Competitions, 2011) Many people are surprised, even shocked, at the amount of experimentation happening in online spaces. This includes social media platforms as detailed in the video What Makes You … Continue reading
Everything is for Sale
By Dino Sossi Everything is for Sale
The Rise of Data Brokers
Who shares what? Where? And why? In the digital era, more data is amassed about us than ever before. No big secret. But the more vexing issues are who has this data and what do they know about us? In … Continue reading
Privacy Peril – For Teens, All Data is for Sale (Graphics)
By Dino Sossi (April 1, 2016) (updated September 15, 2020) https://www.dinosossi.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/privacy-peril-for-teens-all-data-is-for-sale/ How much is your data worth to you? For the average teen, not so much. According to a recent study, 42% of respondents would give away their data for, wait … Continue reading