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How to regain control of your personal data

How to regain control of your personal data

Stage the First: As we go about our daily lives we generate personal data: what we read, buy, people we talk with and things we do can be, and are tracked by companies whose basic business plans depend on their ability to stalk us. The first stage in regaining control of our personal data is to eliminate or at least to reduce as far as possible the data we produce (and give away) as we go about ou... »

Tracking vs stalking: when do you overstep the line?

Tracking vs stalking: when do you overstep the line?

Although it seems like it’s been around forever and life would be unimaginable without it, the Internet is young. From the first inkling of the idea (possibly in 1962, when  J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 wrote a series of memos outlining a “Galactic Network”) and its commercial and general public “birth” about 20 years ago, its growth and impact since then has been massive. An... »