Day 2: The Search For Your Identity
It's the second day of the Privacy Paradox challenge. You know - as you move across the web, clicking and searching and liking, you’re being tracked. You might use an ad blocker. Or a do-not-track plu...
7 Helmi 201715min
Day 1: What Your Phone Knows
Your Privacy Paradox challenges start today. What does your phone know about you? Too much, probably. And it’s even more than you think. Many apps track your location, even when you’re not using the...
6 Helmi 201711min
Introducing: The Privacy Paradox
We want control of our personal information. But even when risks to our data are high, we sign up for services and apps. We download, click, and post without being sure where that data ends up. The Pr...
30 Tammi 201723min
Saving Big Data From Itself
There’s so much potential. With big data, researchers can smooth social interactions and create better cities. Maybe cure cancer, and slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And ...
25 Tammi 201720min
The Bookie, The Phone Booth, and The FBI
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t mention privacy once. But those 54 little words are a crucial battleground in today’s fight over our digital rights. This week, Note to Self gets in our time machine, back...
18 Tammi 201723min
The Four Tendencies: How to Feed Good Habits
Are you an upholder, a questioner, an obliger or a rebel? Gretchen Rubin of the Happier podcast has identified four ways that people respond to expectations - the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and...
11 Tammi 201717min
New Year. Same Old You.
Can we really start fresh when our every step, nap, and calorie are measured? If even a hard-core coder fails at a tech-enabled diet, maybe we need a new way to optimize our quantified selves. Support...
4 Tammi 201726min
Go Ahead. Miss Out.
FOMO is real. And it's amplified during the holiday season when party glam shots and scrumptious food pics are everywhere. So let's embrace a little JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) instead. Support Note to ...
28 Joulu 201618min
