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2018-12-05 Cur. Events: apps and privacy

Dec 5th, 2018
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  1. Greg Malivuk
  2. http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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  4. Homework: find a news article about app data being used for unintended purposes (which might violate users’ privacy)
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  6. Explain the main idea of your article to the other students.
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  8. metadata = data about the data you exchange (for example, who you called, when you called, how long the call was, but not what you actually said)
  9. anonymity = the ability to remain anonymous (so people don’t know who you are)
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  11. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases - Locations where people go running show military bases that aren’t on any map.
  12. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-track-a-cellphone-without-gps-or-consent-1821125371 - It’s possible to calculate your location even without GPS.
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  14. DuckDuckGo - Search engine and (phone) browser that doesn’t store cookies or any other tracking information.
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