When you make a voice call on your smartphone, the information is protected: Your phone company can’t sell the fact that you are calling car dealerships to others who want to sell you a car. But if the same device and the same network are used to contact car dealers through the internet, that information — the same information, in fact — can be captured and sold by the network. To add insult to injury, you pay the network a monthly fee for the privilege of having your information sold to the highest bidder.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Aug 12Slide share program presented by Steve Wheeler at St. James School, Exeter, England, July 14, 2012 as part of the Vital Meet Workshop. Excellent review of where the web started, evolved to, and could be going for learning.