> > Over the past week the NY Times reported on their investigation of > how extensive and comprehensive is the tracking of individuals by their > mobile phones. As part of the series they tracked a whole small town for a > time then told the residents what they did and what they found.
Thanks for sharing this. I couldn't find that specific article, but did find an article on digital fingerprinting & digital advertising. 99% of users identified. I also found an NYT opinion article that was critical of NYT collecting identifying info on people who were reading NYT articles on health issues. Makes me yearn for the days of paying cash for a newspaper and no one knows anything more about you for reading it. > They also published a list of three things one could (should) do with > Android and iOS phones to limit the ability of being tracked. > The Electronic Freedom Foundation's Surveillance Self-Defense Kit is the best resource I've ever seen on this topic. https://ssd.eff.org/en A perfect example of how a technology developed initially for beneficial > uses can be turned into a tool to control or do harm. Sad. > If you haven't read the article, 'The Internet Apologizes', I highly recommend at as a must read for anyone who uses the Internet. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/an-apology-for-the-internet-from-the-people-who-built-it.html And Jaron Lanier is very much a person worth checking out his interviews on Youtube and keeping tabs on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
