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What are the answers? What kinds of things should go into a privacy bill of rights? This book doesn’t have those answers. However, there are at least two things that I would like to convince people of.
One: you should have the ability to make a profit from your data when it’s collected and put to commercial use.
Two: Terms of Service contracts should be explicit and clear about who is getting your data, what they’re going to do with it, and who the data is going to be shared with. In this episode, I’ll talk more about those two points.
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Text BJ at (646) 331-8341
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As we’ve learned over the course of this book, privacy really hasn’t existed since 1917. The question is, what are we going to do about it now? If left to their own devices, companies are going to continue to collect data in creepy ways, and data breaches are going to occur due to poor security. In this episode, I’ll talk about what we can do going forward, as well as about some good news.
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Signal
Tor Browser
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At this point, you may be asking yourself whether you have any rights when it comes to privacy online. The answer is complicated. Children under 13 are somewhat protected by COPA (the Child Online Protection Act). Celebrities are somewhat protected because of the value of their images and likenesses. However, everyone else is in murkier territory.
You may also wonder what you can possibly do about protecting data privacy. It’s easy to feel apathetic about this issue, or to think that it’s not a big deal if it doesn’t seem to be affecting your daily life. But if the problems with data security are allowed to go on, they could get much further out of control before anything can be done about them.
Highlights of today’s episode include:
Links and Resources:
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Privacy Coalition
American Civil Liberties Union
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Federal Trade Commission
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What happens when your data is stolen? This is a question that everyone needs to consider, because the chances are good that it will happen to you eventually. Remember, your data is valuable not just to companies, but also to criminals. In this episode, I’ll talk about what needs to be done to protect your data.
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Links and Resources:
Credit Monitoring by Mint
Annual Credit Reports
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How are hackers, like those behind the Sony Pictures hack, or the hackers associated with Anonymous or LulzSec, able to do so much damage? The answer is simple: lax security measures, and a lack of interest in spending money to update security features. It doesn’t help that many people are still not good at creating strong passwords and safeguarding them. In this episode, I’ll touch on some aspects of hackers, security breaches, and how they should be handled.
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What does it look like when brick and mortar stores violate your privacy? How can retail stores use information like your phone number or data about how you move through a store? In this episode, I’ll talk about how retail stores are collecting and using data about their customers and give you some tips for how to prevent them from doing this if you don’t want them to.
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In this bonus episode, B.J. Mendelson interviews Gabriel Weinberg from DuckDuckGo about how you can better protect your privacy online.
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You can visit DuckDuckGo here.
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Online shopping is often blamed for killing brick and mortar retail. It’s true that a lot of brick and mortar stores are closing. But is online shopping really what’s causing them to struggle? In this episode, I’ll talk about what’s really causing the decline of brick and mortar stores, and how some of them are adopting the practices of tech companies.
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When companies collect data in creepy ways, there’s often a backlash from media or consumers. When this happens, the company will usually back off, but they will usually try again at a later point once the backlash has died down. Why? Because data is valuable to their advertisers and investors. In this episode, I’ll talk about the ways that companies are incentivized to collect data in creepy ways.
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One problem with the practice of companies engaging in creepy behavior to collect data is that it’s never just one company, so it’s not enough just to identify the creeps and avoid them.
Smaller companies tend to imitate larger companies, hoping to achieve the same success. So, when small companies observe larger companies collecting data in creepy ways, they’ll follow suit. In this episode, I’ll talk about some of these creepy activities.
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