Tag: data privacy
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Your Data and Building a Better World
Reading Time: 9 minutes These three stories depict a world in the not-so-distant future where technology has revolutionized our lives from the mundane day-to-day routines, to the broader city, state, and nationwide management of complex systems and infrastructure. Each story is meant to showcase a potential benefit of large scale data gathering and artificial intelligence systems trained from our […]
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Update: Tech Tracking Explained
Reading Time: 2 minutes Late last year, I wrote a short piece on how tech companies and advertising firms can track your behavior online, and a large section of the post focused on browser cookies. To have a quick recap, simply put, cookies are small bits of information that are generated by websites and stored on your computer in […]
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Tech Tracking Explained
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you’ve spent any time online in the past decade, you’ve noticed that elements of the digital and physical world tend to follow you around in ways you might not expect it to. If you have a Facebook account, you may have noticed that after talking with a friend about ordering pizza, you’re seeing ads […]