Episode 42: Surveillance Capitalism Countermeasures w/ Hyperlink

So websites want your "data" (whatever that means). So...what? This week on Commune College, Hyperlink takes the squad in depth on what data collection & sale really means for individuals and why it's so fucked up, then shares some ideas on what you can do to protect your privacy, even if you're not a #certified #foss #app.

Music credits for this episode are two tracks from Kye:
Kye Fox - Praxis
Kye Fox - Redshift Reboot

Show Notes:

Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy,
and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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www.dunkindonuts.com/en/privacy-policy

Greenfield, Adam. 2017. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. New York: Verso.

John, A. S. (2018, April 11). How Facebook Tracks You, Even When You're Not on Facebook.
Retrieved from https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-
even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/

Schneier, B. (2016). Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect your data and control your
world. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Lee, M. (2014, October 28). Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible
Danger. Now I Teach You. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/
smuggling-snowden-secrets/

Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy,
and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Turow, J., Mcguigan, L., & Maris, E. R. (2015). Making data mining a natural part of life:
Physical retailing, customer surveillance and the 21st century social imaginary.
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5), 464-478. doi:10.1177/1367549415577390

Zuboff, S. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information
civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 75-89. doi:10.1057/jit.2015.5

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344751/facial-recognition-face-masks-accuracy-nist-study

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/congress-clears-way-for-isps-to-sell-browsing-history.html

https://www.vyprvpn.com/blog/myths-about-vpn-logging-and-anonymity

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/

https://www.groundtruth.com/solutions/self-serve/

The Tor Project. (n.d.). Tor: Overview. Retrieved October 29, 2018, from https://
www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en