So far for the Big Data project, I have watched a TED talk by Glenn Grennwald, about why privacy matters. This TED talk discusses the idea of privacy within the mass surveillance that takes place in all aspects of society. Greenwald talks about how people claim that privacy doesn’t matter, yet they have passwords and … [Read more…]
“Imagine that an organization has access to your list of Facebook friends, and through some kind of algorithm they can detect the two friends that you like the most. And then they create, in real time, a facial composite of these two friends. Now studies prior to ours have shown that people don’t recognize any longer even themselves in facial composites, but they … [Read more…]
Dear Diary, Starting off the day by an alarm going off, and checking the weather app in hopes of some warm weather. Next is checking missed messages that were sent over night, and then moving into various social media outlets to get caught up from late posts. Instagram is the most frequently used, followed by … [Read more…]
