The Risks of Public Data

A desire for convenience and openness has left local and state public records easily available for mining, combining, and abuse.

By Craig Kelley | March 18, 2020 | Government, Law, Privacy | Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, Convenience, Data, Data Collection, Data-Mining, Databases, Efficiency, Government, Internet, Massachusetts, Paper Records, Privacy, Public Data, Registry of Deeds, Speed, Transparency, Transportation, Voter Registry

He Started #DeleteFacebook… Nine Years Ago

Nine years ago, three artists created a controversial site to make a statement about Facebook’s practices. The company sued and accused them of scraping data. Oh, the irony.

By Art Keller | April 11, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Law, Media, Privacy | Advertising, Apps, Art, Bits of Freedom, Cambridge Analytica, Chris Wylie, Congress, Danja Vasiliev, Dark Patterns, Data Scraping, Data-Mining, Deleting Accounts, Developers, Digital Art, Edward Snowden, EFF, Facebook, Fraud, Gordan Savicic, Manipulation, Mark Zuckerberg, Moddr, Privacy, Privacy Zuckering, Social Commentary, Social Media, Tobias Leingruber, Twitter, Walter Langelaar, Web Suicide Machine

Microsoft’s Latest OS May Inspire Defenestration

In the summer of 2015, Microsoft released their Windows 10 operating system to much fanfare. It came with a new [...]

By Art Keller | August 31, 2016 | Advertising, Economics, Privacy | ACLU, Apple, Bing, Cortana, Data-Mining, EFF, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Software as a Service, Windows, Woody Leonhard