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Fears around privacy are increasingly deterring people from using the internet, according to Oxford University.
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
Whether you're new to Windows 10 or have been using it for years, take a minute to lock down your privacy.
Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all
Medical groups are warning that new federal data-sharing rules, enabling people to get their health records through a smartphone, could lead to invasions of privacy.
Librarians say the company's update to Lynda.com learning tools is an unwelcome encroachment on patrons' rights.
As students and faculty return to school, many are discovering Lynda.com content is now only offered via LinkedIn Learning.
When it comes to basic rights and freedoms, do digital devices deserve the same protection as our brains and bodies?
Following an investigation into Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ use of Gale Analytics on Demand, a California grand jury reported on June 24 that the use of data analytics tools by libraries “is a potential threat to patron privacy and trust.”
Parents who choose not to post photos of their kids on social media struggle when Facebook-happy older relatives break the rules.
Rather than enshrining mottos like “data is the new oil” into the vocabulary of tomorrow’s future technology leaders, perhaps we should emphasize “privacy first” and focus on how companies can absolutely minimize the data they collect to ensure a more privacy-protecting and less Orwellian future.
We asked some of our librarians what they think about the acquision of Lynda.com by LinkedIn and what implications it has for its users.
LinkedIn sucks.
Add to LocalPrivacy GitHub.
Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?
Would be interesting to analyze this for its approach to ethics. I see a lot of deontology.
Ethics smell: "His defense of Nacho boiled down to this: It’s just the way the Internet works."
Having open-ended conversations with people, not just handing them a to-do list, can often help them make better choices for themselves.
Until Chrome starts helping you guard your privacy, these browser extensions can take on the work.
"Convenience" is a shitty excuse surveillance capitalists use to damage all of us.