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

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Everything is for Sale

By Dino Sossi Everything is for Sale

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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

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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

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