Eli Pariser sees personalization as the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years. In this investigation of the new "hidden" Web, Pariser uncovers how this growing trend threatens to control how we as a society consume and share information.
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- April 19, 2019Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers
- April 17, 2019Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
- April 16, 2019Social media poses a threat to privacy - Americans still use it amid complaints (Chinese)
- April 11, 2019How Facebook is trying to stop its own algorithms from doing their job
- April 03, 2019500 million Facebook user data stored in the cloud feared leakage (Chinese)
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Consumer Action INSIDER - April 2019 The April issue updates readers on the latest in the campaign to end the unfair practice of forced arbitration; what to do when taking your pet to the vet ends up costing you WAY too much; our partnership with the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation; and more. (Monday, April 01, 2019)
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Savvy Online Shopping - PowerPoint Slides.
The downloadable Savvy Online Shopping PowerPoint presentation is designed to be used in conjunction with the lesson plan, adding a visual component that will help engage learners and improve retention.
Savvy Online Shopping - Seminar Lesson Plan and Class Activities.
This packet, only available as a PDF file, provides guidance for community educators. It contains a detailed curriculum and classroom activities.
Questions and Answers about Savvy Online Shopping and Dispute Resolution.
Written in Q&A format, this backgrounder answers many questions about savvy online shopping that are not covered in the companion brochures.
Savvy Online Shopping: How to resolve a dispute.
Consumers who shop online sometimes run into problems, from delivery or product issues to billing questions or disputes. This publication explains the steps that online shoppers can take to avoid or resolve these and other problems that might arise.
Savvy Online Shopping: Tips for trouble-free transactions.
Online shopping offers all sorts of benefits, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t without potential risks. This publication explains how to reduce hassles by protecting your personal information, making wise choices about where you shop and how you pay, and taking steps to avoid disputes.
BookNotes
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others.
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Exploring the conflict between civil liberties and national security, this book sounds the alarm about the current state of surveillance in the United States. Addressing the ease with which the federal government can monitor the telephone calls, e-mail, credit card purchases, money transfers, and…
Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is…
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