#wearebeingwatched

[mishy546]

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[thelovesnobs]

Look who joined the set yesterday. He could believe what he was hearing. The look says it all!!!! #lovesnobs #lovechild #wearebeingwatched #childrenaregreat https://www.instagram.com/p/B32wa5EFTWb/?igshid=1vcwz9ltx0bs2

[crowsarealiens-blog]

Aliens Rate Earth: Skip the Primates, Come for the Crows

Alison Gopnik, thinking about humans’ role on Earth, daydreams about an alien visitor who’s entranced by dinosaurs and crows and shrugs off humanity.

Kind of neglects the fact that the CROWS ARE THE ALIENS! But, it’s an interesting read nonetheless...

[purplehaze1913-blog]

Episode 1: Morning Rituals Things to consider hitting on/noting: What did you input? I inputed Buzzfeed and time. What were the results/How many 3rd parties are tracking you? On this website, there are exactly 8 third parties tracking me. What are trackers? Trackers are websites monitoring your activity . What do these 3rd parties do with your data? They store your data to refer to later. Do trackers operate on amazon profiles? Why or why not? Yes they do to see what you look up and what you purchase. Who does your data footprint impact? Your data footprint impacts you and other users like you. What you will need to address: Can you avoid being tracked? What resources are available? When your data is currency, what does your privacy cost? Do not track--does it work? Episode 2: Breaking Ad Things to consider hitting on/noting: What are the economic origins of online tracking? The origins or online tracking started from the need to advertise.Cookies are text files that are saved on your computer from a website you're using. They remember your activity on besides so they can show you what you are interested when you return. Cookies create your consumer profile based on what websites you use and what you search for. One type of cookie is the zombie cookie, which reinvents itself after we delete them. Since the 1990s, the internet has been growing. More users wanted to create and use more websites. Episode 3: Like Mining Things to consider hitting on/noting: When using smart phones, the apps you use play a role in marketing and data revival. The apps can use ads and collect cookies. They can also show the location of the user and where that user has been. IGoogle is an example of a network that tracks people by their phone. The phone contains a SIM card card with the name of the owner on it, it helps show locations. The terms of use often contain sharing data without the knowledge of the individual. By not tracking apps, or disabling the cookies are ways that a person can protect their data. Episode 4: The Spy in my Pocket Things to consider hitting on/noting: With the internet growing to a massive size, it's becoming more accessible to people all over the world! Technology has made it easier to use on the go. Apps need us to function. Us using them make them stronger, even if we’re accepting things we didn’t read through before doing so. I have over 20 apps on my phone, which is average for smartphone users. Google tracks us accurately because it uses things like: our IP address, GPS signals, wifi, and apps we didn't even download willingly. Google states that we cannot shut them off.. With our use of wifi and location, even if we attempt to disable things, the information will not go away and is still trackable. It helps show them what we could be doing daily by looking at recurring events. With free wifi, it allows the businesses you visit to earn money and also allow you to become more trackable, as they can see your location. It does impact us individually, but nothing that we are aware of. No matter what we do to try and prevent the tracking, it will always be there as we have allowed these smartphone apps to do whatever they’d like with our information, tracking included. Episode 5: Big Data Inside the Algorithm Things to consider hitting on/noting: Algorithms can collect large masses of data and give accurate answers based on user input. Big data are large quantities of data that are used for analysis. Big data can be analyzed using algorithms to give back useful information on things and people. When clicking on a page cookies for ads run algorithms to determine what to market towards you. Myths give data a voice. Algorithms are used to determine bank loans. Episode 6: The Daily Me Things to consider hitting on/noting: The filter bubble is info recommend based on what you've liked online. It impacts what websites are shown to us online, it shows what we are interested in. Algorithms build this and uses the information to do this. We only see biased search results. Optimization finds the most suitable value for a function with a given domain. Episode 7: To Change the Future Click Here Things to consider hitting on/noting: People thought that the Internet would solve all of our problems, although it did solve some, it also created a whole new batch. Edward Snowden revealed private government information that exposed tone internet making us uneasy to use it. Because of 9/11 security has become much more stiff and the internet is much more regulated. There are now blurred lines between security and privacy. We are not able to have as much privacy because we need much more security and regulation. We are not using the tools we are given correctly and instead, we are using the tools in a way that is corroding a positive society.