Whether you’re tweeting,shopping or just browsing, internet companies are monitoring you. Here’s how to evade the snoopersNobody likes being spied on. When you’re innocently browsing the web, or it’s deeply unpleasant to think that faceless technology corporations are monitoring and recording your every straggle.
While such data collection is legal,that doesn’t mean it’s all true. There are plenty of things you might prefer to retain to yourself, such as your income, and your sexuality,your political views or your membership of the Yoko Ono fanclub. For an indication of what can be inferred from your online habits, take a look at the Apply Magic Sauce tool produced by Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, and which produces a profile of your personality based on Facebook and Twitter data. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com