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Class action lawsuit alleges Fitbit misled buyers - 0 views

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"A California man has filed a class action suit against Fitbit, alleging that the company's sleep tracking is inaccurate and constitutes false advertising. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A California man has filed a class action suit against Fitbit, alleging that the company's sleep tracking is inaccurate and constitutes false advertising. "</div>

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Karen | Blast Theory - 0 views

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Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Karen is a life coach and she's happy to help you work through a few things in your life. You interact with Karen through an app. When you begin, she asks you some questions about your outlook on the world to get an understanding of you. In fact, her questions are drawn from psychological profiling questionnaires. She - and the software - are profiling you and she gives you advice based on your answers.</div>

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To Read All Of The Privacy Policies You Encounter, You'd Need To Take A Month Off From ... - 0 views

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"We've discussed the stupidity of privacy policies many times in the past. Honestly, it's an idea that serves no useful purpose, yet most sites are required to have one, and if you don't, people get all upset. But no one reads them, and most people incorrectly assume that if a site has any privacy policy, they must keep data private. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We've discussed the stupidity of privacy policies many times in the past. Honestly, it's an idea that serves no useful purpose, yet most sites are required to have one, and if you don't, people get all upset. But no one reads them, and most people incorrectly assume that if a site has any privacy policy, they must keep data private. "</div>

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Your smart TV is listening to you and hackers might be, too - 0 views

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Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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People without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking are all being tracked, report says

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">People without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking are all being tracked, report says</div>

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Personalised marketing at scale is the next big thing in digital | Media Network | The ... - 0 views

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"Big data opens up a hyper-personalised marketing opportunity - but creative treads a thin line between relevance and invasiveness"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Big data opens up a hyper-personalised marketing opportunity - but creative treads a thin line between relevance and invasiveness"</div>

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NSA-proof passwords - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"The Intercept's Micah Lee explains how to use Diceware's to generate a passphrase that can survive the NSA's trillion-guess-per-second cracking attempts -- but which can still be easily memorized. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Intercept's Micah Lee explains how to use Diceware's to generate a passphrase that can survive the NSA's trillion-guess-per-second cracking attempts -- but which can still be easily memorized. "</div>

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Will Our Fitness Data Be Used Against Us? | Design and Tech | OutsideOnline.com - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 10 Mar 15

" Your activity tracker knows a ridiculous amount about you-from the wear on your running shoes to what coffee shop you'll stop at on your next ride. And that data's getting shared for financial gain. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" Your activity tracker knows a ridiculous amount about you-from the wear on your running shoes to what coffee shop you'll stop at on your next ride. And that data's getting shared for financial gain. "</div>

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Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment - The Atlantic - 0 views

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"Facebook's News Feed-the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone-is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Facebook's News Feed-the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone-is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state."</div>

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Surveillance-based manipulation: How Facebook or Google could tilt elections | Ars Tech... - 0 views

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Ian Forrester on 03 Mar 15

Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us. Surveillance facilitates control.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us. Surveillance facilitates control.</div>

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OKCupid: we experiment on users. Everyone does | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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Dating service OkCupid has cheerfully admitted to manipulating what it shows users, a month after Facebook faced a storm of protest when it revealed that it had conducted psychological experiments.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Dating service OkCupid has cheerfully admitted to manipulating what it shows users, a month after Facebook faced a storm of protest when it revealed that it had conducted psychological experiments.</div>

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We Experiment On Human Beings! « OkTrends - 0 views

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OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing. Neither does any other website. It's not like people have been building these things for very long, or you can go look up a blueprint or something. Most ideas are bad. Even good ideas could be better.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">OkCupid doesn't really know what it's doing. Neither does any other website. It's not like people have been building these things for very long, or you can go look up a blueprint or something. Most ideas are bad. Even good ideas could be better. </div>

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'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Techn... - 0 views

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"When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lindsey Stone on Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and her reputation. Two years on, could she get her life back?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lindsey Stone on Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and her reputation. Two years on, could she get her life back?"</div>

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Samsung smart TVs send unencrypted voice recognition data across internet | Technology ... - 0 views

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snopes.com: Facebook Messenger - 0 views

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"There are many articles circulating about all the privacy incursions of Facebooks new messenger app but I don't think they could all be true. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There are many articles circulating about all the privacy incursions of Facebooks new messenger app but I don't think they could all be true. "</div>

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BBC News - Barbie doll will be internet connected to chat to kids - 0 views

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"Barbie is having a digital makeover, with the release of an internet-connected version of the iconic doll."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Barbie is having a digital makeover, with the release of an internet-connected version of the iconic doll."</div>

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IBM's Watson Helps CogniToy's Educational Toy Talk Like a Buddy | Re/code - 0 views

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"It has been 30 years since toys started talking back to kids - in the form of the cassette-playing robot bear Teddy Ruxpin"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It has been 30 years since toys started talking back to kids - in the form of the cassette-playing robot bear Teddy Ruxpin"</div>

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BBC News - What price for free wi-fi? - 0 views

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"Smartphone users are always looking for free wi-fi but at what price does it come? Businesses are looking at ways to make the free wi-fi they offer work for them too. It can track our movements through our phones and reveal a great deal about us to those who have something to sell. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Smartphone users are always looking for free wi-fi but at what price does it come? Businesses are looking at ways to make the free wi-fi they offer work for them too. It can track our movements through our phones and reveal a great deal about us to those who have something to sell. "</div>

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BBC News - Is your toaster a silent recruit in a 'thingbot' army? - 0 views

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Our electronic devices are getting smarter - many can now "talk" to each other and connect to the web. What happens when silently recruited into a bot net?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Our electronic devices are getting smarter - many can now "talk" to each other and connect to the web. What happens when silently recruited into a bot net?</div>

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Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party apps | Ars Technica - 0 views

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People with smart TVs from Samsung have been complaining that the electronics maker is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own, locally stored movies.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">People with smart TVs from Samsung have been complaining that the electronics maker is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own, locally stored movies.</div>

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Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment - The Atlantic - 0 views

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