"MorphCast is a new adaptive interactive format that engages audiences whilst protecting their privacy. MorphCast combines interactive video with emotional and demographic response to create a new type of adaptive video experience within the mobile device, powered by artificial intelligence and without the need for plug-ins, apps or the user's personal data. It runs on nearly every smartphone, tablet or PC through a URL."
The Digital Standard is an ambitious, open, and collaborative effort to create a digital privacy and security standard to help guide the future design of consumer software, digital platforms and services, and Internet-connected products.
"webxray is a tool for analyzing third-party content on webpages and identifying the companies which collect user data. A command line user interface makes webxray easy to use for non-programmers, and those with advanced needs may analyze millions of pages with proper configuration. webxray is a professional tool designed for academic research, and may be used by privacy compliance officers, regulators, and those who are generally curious about hidden data flows on the web."
"ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.
It is open source, privacy-first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime.
It can help you keep track of time spent on different projects, kick bad screen habits, or just understand how you spend your time."
Companies have to give you access to your data and correct or even delete them if necessary.
As a non-profit association, we help you use those rights - free of charge and registration, of course.
"Neuroscientists have found that they can identify individuals based on a coarse map of which brain regions "pair up" in scans of brain activity.
The map is stable enough that the researchers could pick one person's pattern from a set of 126, by matching it to a scan taken on another day.
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"When a rogue researcher last week released 70,000 OkCupid profiles, complete with usernames and sexual preferences, people were pissed. When Facebook researchers manipulated stories appearing in Newsfeeds for a mood contagion study in 2014, people were really pissed. OkCupid filed a copyright claim to take down the dataset; the journal that published Facebook's study issued an "expression of concern." Outrage has a way of shaping ethical boundaries. We learn from mistakes."
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology.
During the Q&A (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a "quantified world" - and more opportunities for government surveillance.