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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25878202 - example of a confusing noun pile in a headline: “Citizen science charts horse chestnut tree pest spread”
- Homework: figure out what this headline means
- Citizen science charts horse chestnut tree pest spread.
- “horse chestnut tree pest spread” is a compound noun, with the head at the end
- = Citizen science (everyday people collecting science data) charts (records numerically) the spread of a pest that destroys the horse chestnut tree.
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- https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/report-google-still-tracks-you-even-with-location-history-off/4529833.html - Take 5 minutes to skim the article and understand the main ideas.
- What is the main point of the article?
- https://apnews.com/f60bc112665b458cb6473d7ee9492932 - Original AP article about it.
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- How many apps on your phone have access to your location? Do you think they should?
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- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism - surveillance capitalism is the market that exists for data about people collected through surveillance (especially by apps that track things like location and purchases)
- metadata = data about your data (e.g. information about the time, recipient, and duration of your phone call, but not what you said)
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- Find another story about app surveillance being used to figure out “secret” or private information (e.g. a jogging app revealing secret military bases, or Uber ride data revealing who has one-night-stands)
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- IoT = Internet of Things = the development of more and more physical devices that are connected to the Internet (and are thus hackable, surveillable, etc.)
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- https://gizmodo.com/how-to-track-a-cellphone-without-gps-or-consent-1821125371 - It’s possible to find a phone’s exact location without using GPS or anything else that requires permission.
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- “If a service is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”
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