Author: lepantog
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Why Choose Privacy?
Why is privacy and the protection of your online data so important, not just for yourself but for others and the very foundation of democracy?
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Sensitive Data: Sold
Data brokers can legally sell our sensitive data to advertisers and even governments. What do they do with the data, and how can we stop it?
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Awareness, Action: Advocacy + Protective Behaviors
How can we resist datamining, digital surveillance, and the other ills of big data? It starts with awareness and small, personal protections.
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Racial Recognition
Facial recognition tech may be familiar nowadays, but it’s flawed and has racial biases baked into it. Also, some of its uses are downright disturbing…
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Digital Division
Despite promises of a better future, today’s tech perpetuates racial division. We haven’t gotten rid of racism; we’ve just automated it.
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Personal. Professional. Critical.
Social media promises us a personalized, “personal” experience. It’s great, in theory. But how does it do it? Why should we be critical of it?
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Choice, Coercion, and Predation
How can we make people aware of the choices they make about their personal data online? It starts with eliminating coercion by companies.
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Algorithms: Not So Fair, After All
Math isn’t always fair and unbiased, despite what you may have been taught…and it’s being used to make some very big, very poor decisions.
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Surveillance Capitalism: Pitting Money against Privacy
Surveillance Capitalism, pushed by the Tech Giants who benefit from it, erodes everyone’s privacy. What can be done about it?
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Privilege, Privacy, and Blame
We talk about the connection between privilege and privacy and why we shouldn’t be quick to blame internet users for privacy erosion.