In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure connecting and correlating personal information across platforms, devices, and even from physical world sources like point-of-sales...
In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure...
It's cybersecurity season in Las Vegas and I'm inspired to write an overdue post on why I hate the phrase "cyber civil defense"....
This week, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called for warning labels for social media platforms. If you know anything about...
One of the things we measured in our 2022 US K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark was the presence of risky trackers within the school’s...
We’re lucky to live in the US. One of the things we routinely take for granted in our country is the general safety of virtually all...
There’s a popular parable about five blind men touching various parts of an elephant to identify what they are unable to see. One,...
Who’s Responsible for Student Data: Data Controller Confusion in EdTech In Spotlight Report #4, we introduced the problem of “data...
Familiar with Elizabeth Renieris’ keen mind and exceptional writing skills, I was excited to read her recently published book,...
In our continued effort to educate people about the risks from data brokers this blog post provides a list of authoritative news...
We hear about data brokers, but who are they and why should I care? They’re pervasive, collect thousands of data points about us on an ongoing basis, and aren’t properly governed.
When we started drafting the Respectful Tech Specification a couple of years ago, it was immediately obvious that we didn’t have an adequate vocabulary to describe personal experiences in the digital world—never mind measure them.
I’m writing this on USA’s Independence Day 2021. I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom—especially in the digital world. Mainly because it doesn’t exist there (or here, since I’m posting this online).
For some time, the Me2B Alliance has been working on easy-to-understand educational material to better convey the particular harms visited upon us through the “Invisible Parallel Dataverse”, which is mainly embodied through a vast network of entities artfully calling themselves a “media ecosystem” but which is in fact the massive infrastructure and industry of Digital Advertising.