Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
Have you ever felt like the world sees you less and less as a person and more as a profile, a data set, a consumer waiting to be analyzed? You’re not imagining it. Somewhere along the way, your digital shadow started speaking louder than your real voice, and nobody asked for your permission. This isn’t just a tech problem. It’s a soul-level issue. And it’s time we talked about it.
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- Written by: Kassem Fawaz and Jack West, University of Wisconsin-Madison
That free weather app may be forecasting more than rain—it's tracking your every move. Here's how your data is being used, sold, and surveilled.
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- Written by: Elizabeth K. Anthony, Arizona State University
Increased police monitoring of young people leads to more school discipline referrals and arrests, typically of Black and Latino youth.
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- Written by: Ravi Sen, Texas A&M University
When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information about your mobile device use, photos, audio and video.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas, University of Michigan
Most participants in a recent study had no idea that their email addresses and other personal information had been compromised in an average of five data breaches each.
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- Written by: Bill Kovarik
In 1915, Gabrielle Darley killed a New Orleans man who had tricked her into a life of prostitution. She was tried, acquitted of murder and within a few years was living a new life under her married name, Melvin.
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- Written by: Paul Haskell-Dowland and Brianna O'Shea
Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers.
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- Written by: Suranga Seneviratne
As survey results pile, it’s becoming clear Australians are sceptical about how their online data is tracked and used. But one question worth asking is: are our fears founded?
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- Written by: Bonnie Stewart
Ring promises to keep more neighbourhoods safe, but will smart surveillance systems really make you safer?
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- Written by: Constantine Gidaris
A 2019 surge of gang-related shootings in Toronto motivated the Ontario government to commit $3 million to double the number of Toronto Police surveillance cameras in the city.
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- Written by: NBC News
Researchers discovered that Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Home can be hacked by laser pointers and flashlights.
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- Written by: NBC News
We give out our cell phone numbers all the time, but those 10 digits also give companies a ton of information about us and how we live our lives.
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- Written by: Kean Birch
My recent research increasingly focuses on how individuals can and do manipulate, or “game,” contemporary capitalism. It involves what social scientists call reflexivity and physicists call the observer effect.
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- Written by: Ari Trachtenberg, Gianluca Stringhini, and Ran Canetti
Individuals and businesses unknowingly expose themselves to security and privacy threats, as experts explain here.
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- Written by: Boston University
Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook collect a staggering amount of data points from us, so much data that our social media activity can pretty accurately reveal things from gym habits to the state of our mental well-being.
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- Written by: Emily Willingham
A familiar scenario: as part of having your cholesterol checked, your clinician also orders a standard blood panel – a red blood-cell count, and then a breakdown showing the proportions of five types of white blood cells.
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- Written by: Scott Shackelford
High-profile data breaches at companies like British Airways and Marriott get a lot of media coverage, but cybercriminals are increasingly going after community groups, schools, small businesses and municipal governments.
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- Written by: Samuel Lengen
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies to disclose the “true value” of their data to users.
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- Written by: Sara Bannerman
In January 2019, Liberal MP Adam Vaughan argued that privacy concerns about the smart city proposed for Toronto’s waterfront should not be allowed to “reverse 25 years of good, solid work and 40 years of dreaming on the Toronto waterfront.”
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- Written by: Stephen Groening
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian fiction.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas
The notifications that companies send consumers about data breaches lack clarity and may add to customer confusion about whether their data is at risk, according to new research.
