The current relationship between the average consumer of digital products and services has a complex relationship with their data. One on hand, giving up some of your personal data in order to gain a better more personalized experience seems like a fair trade off. However, I think a lot of people, myself included, have a poor understanding of just how much of our data is being collected and monitored. One slightly startling example\u00a0 I found was described in the New York Times article linked below. This article examined how supposedly “depersonalized” or anonymous location data is not as secure as it may appear. By using a database which held a lot of this cell-phone location data in New York they were able to discover the identity of a supposedly “anonymous” user. Reading this article was slightly unnerving, but simultaneously very interesting and it includes some really cool graphics so I’d highly recommend reading the original article.<\/p>\n
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