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6 votes
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What are the arguments against letting user data be collected?
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the...
It's obviously bad when "real" data like full names and credit card info leaks, but most data companies collect is probably email address and some anonymous things like which buttons and when the user clicked.
Nevertheless, such data collection, tracking and telemetry is considered quite bad among power users. I don't support those practices either. But I'm struggling to consolidate my arguments agaist data collection. The one I'm confident about is effects on performance and battery life on mobile devices, but why else it's bad I'm not sure.
What are your arguments? Why is it bad when a company X knows what anonymous user Y did and made money on that info? What's the good response to anyone who asks why I'm doing the "privacy things"?
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Compromised credentials for a Microsoft support agent enabled outside access to non-enterprise Hotmail, Outlook, and MSN emails for months
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A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data
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Documents reveal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement using driver location data from local police for deportations
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It’s time to talk about ditching statistical significance
19 votes -
Eight ways sci-fi imagines data storage
8 votes -
Your guide to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Tournament
7 votes -
Mozilla releases Iodide, an open source browser tool for publishing dynamic data science
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How Google’s bad data wiped a neighborhood off the map
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
8 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
8 votes -
Just what is intelligent storage? Here are three examples.
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An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
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Delete never: The digital hoarders who collect Tumblrs, medieval manuscripts, and terabytes of text files
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My activity history on Tildes: an exercise in boredom
20 votes -
For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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lib.reviews An open source, open data review website for high quality reviews on any topic
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The route of a text message, a love story
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Privacy vs "I have nothing to hide"
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Factors that affect the reliability of SSDs, and how they compare to HDDs
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2.7 million medical calls breached in Sweden due to an unsecured NAS
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Huawei cloning Apple parts, rewarding employees for tech theft
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
8 votes -
Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
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Why humanitarians are worried about Palantir’s new partnership with the UN
8 votes -
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
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Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations
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Telcos sold highly sensitive customer GPS data
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Millions are on the move in China, and Big Data is watching
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How ontologies help data science make sense of disparate data
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Now your groceries see you, too
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Data on discrimination
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I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible
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What cities are getting wrong about public transportation
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VOIPO.com data leak
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Pew study: 74% of Facebook users did not know Facebook was maintaining a list of their interests/traits, 51% were uncomfortable with it, and 27% felt the list was inaccurate
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I made a program that creates the colour palette of a film
I saw these things originally on Reddit that extracted the average colour of frames from films and put them together to make a colour palette for said film, the original creator has a site called...
I saw these things originally on Reddit that extracted the average colour of frames from films and put them together to make a colour palette for said film, the original creator has a site called The Colors of Motion. I thought it would be cool to try and create a simple PowerShell script that does the same thing.
Here are a few examples:
Finding Nemo: https://i.imgur.com/8YwOlwK.png
The Bee Movie: https://i.imgur.com/umbd3co.png
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: https://i.imgur.com/6rsbv0M.pngI've hosted my code on GitHub so if anyone wants to use my PowerShell script or suggest some ways to improve it feel free. You can use pretty much any video file as input as it uses ffmpeg to extract the frames.
GitHub link: https://github.com/ArkadiusBear/FilmStrip
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Open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care via Electronic Health Records
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Economic Policy Institute: Top charts of 2018
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How Google tracks your personal information
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Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed
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At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from Silicon Valley employees
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Amazon sends 1,700 Alexa voice recordings to a random person
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Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
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Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8m users
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Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
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"Mischievous responders" have been tainting the data about health disparities between LGBT youth and their peers
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Data Collection
15 votes