For those who want to cut the cord with their internet identities, Who Is Hosting This has created a detailed guide that illustrates how you can completely disappear online. It starts with the simple stuff — like how to delete your Facebook accounts — and then gets more extreme. There are ways to falsify un-deletable accounts and even erase search results.
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'Google Street View is brilliant. It finds us when we're lost, it shows us where we are, it reveals places we'll never get to visit, and so on and so forth. But you know what's even more amazing? The crazy neural network that Street View is built on..'
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An online activity that provides helpful guidance on how to keep your data and personal information more secure.
A fascinating paper on the rise of big data, our loss of privacy and possibly, ultimately, our freedom. Read the article here.
Howard Rheingold has used Delicious to curate links to surveillance and our increasing loss of privacy.
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Twitter can be a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, and keep abreast of what's going on in the world. However, as with all online platforms, there are a few risks - such as hackers, who attempt to take control of people's accounts in order to misuse them.
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