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Podcast: #DigitalOptimists with Stefan Buijsman (Privacy Issues Episode)

AMS2019, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Facebook, privacy, social media December 20, 2019

I am having a conversation with my friend Stefan Buijsman who is the youngest Ph.D. of the Netherlands and Sweden (obtained it at the age of 20). He has written numerous books about mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and he is an optimist when it comes to technological developments and social media. We discuss whether WhatsApp is as private and encrypted as it…

Eye-Tracking: Identifying Criminals to Sexual Orientation

DH2019, Digitalization, Digitalized, privacy, Technology December 2, 2019

I wanted to end my blog posts with a nice overview of what I have been up to, what my focuses were in the past blogs and connect them all under one umbrella, however, as you will see while reading further, I decided to go with something else. I have been focusing on different digital tools, smart technologies that are increasingly being implemented…

Writing history in the age of Big Data

DH2019, Digitalized, Facebook, History, Internet, memory, privacy, Social, social media November 25, 2019

Our age is truly the age of Big Data. Every day we tweet, write posts and upload photos to Facebook and Instagram and send messages through WhatsApp to keep in touch with our friends and relatives. While doing this, we might not be aware that we are constantly producing new data, thus only increasing the amount that is already out there. As…

All Is Fair In Love & Cookies

DH2019, Facebook, Internet, Online platforms, privacy, Self, Social October 29, 2019
Red Heart in Binary

The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions – both governmental and corporate – realized it was in their mutual interest to conceal their data collection activities in order to increase the breadth and depth of their sensory networks 

Edward Snowden on JRE #1368

I’ll be honest with you, I have a thing for the nitty-gritty of controversies. The issue of privacy on social media has been the talk of the town, but what exactly does privacy mean to us in this post-digital era and how are we and the corporations we populate taking responsibility for our virtual homes on the WWW.