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Tag Archives: privacy
Is your phone listening to you and serving up ads based on what it hears?
While I was visiting my older sister over the weekend, she maintained, as so many people do, that her phone listens to her and then serves up ads based on what she was just talking about. As is typical with … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, online advertising, privacy, smartphones
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe) – Smartphone privacy, SCOTUS leaks, scholastic censorship, COVID-19 & stress release
Lots of questions need to be asked and answered this week: Would your smartphone know if you had an abortion? Quite possibly, and that information would likely be for sale. Would your smartphone know if you had an abortion? There … Continue reading
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Tagged Because I can, censorship, COVID-19, privacy, Questions worth asking, SCOTUS, smartphones, student free speech
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How does Apple feel about the court order requiring company to unlock iPhone? Hint: They don’t like it. Did the press do a good job of covering the pope’s remarks about Donald Trump? No, they did not. In fact, many, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 3, Chapter 6
Tagged apple, blogging, Donald Trump, iPhone, mergers, PewDiePie, Pope Francis, privacy, Survivor, Time Warner Cable
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Does Google need your consent before using your data to create a profile of you? Looks like they do in Germany. Are consumers the only ones cutting the cord? Nope. Smaller cable/internet providers are starting to get out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, mobile phones, privacy, questions, social media, television
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Link Ch. 10 – Who has the rights to your social media?
The point of having social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and the like to be able to share aspects of your life with your friends and the rest of the world. Which is fine when you are going out … Continue reading
Link Ch. 11 – Privacy in the Digital Age: Target knows that high school girl is preggers before dad does
In the age of online shopping and digital information, it’s easy to get paranoid about how much vendors know about us. You want to get creeped out? Start paying attention to the recommendations that Amazon makes to you based on … Continue reading