corporate empire – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:46:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Project Of The Day: Trackography https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-day-trackography/2016/03/27 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-day-trackography/2016/03/27#respond Sun, 27 Mar 2016 01:43:52 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=55042 Have you ever googled yourself to see where your identity lives online? Unless you are a celebrity, or a spammer, your results may seem sparse, at best. So, how do big data companies make money tracking the online behavior of ordinary people? One organization, Trackography, has created tools to expose the big data operations tracking... Continue reading →

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]]> Have you ever googled yourself to see where your identity lives online? Unless you are a celebrity, or a spammer, your results may seem sparse, at best. So, how do big data companies make money tracking the online behavior of ordinary people?

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One organization, Trackography, has created tools to expose the big data operations tracking you online. Even better, Trackography’s companion project, My Shadow, helps ordinary people control their own data.

Extracted from https://myshadow.org/trackography

What is online tracking?

Have you ever read a newspaper and noticed a stranger reading it over your shoulder? Reading the news online is like having Google, Facebook, or Twitter doing the same thing. Known as “third party trackers”, these companies collect data about who you are, what you’re reading and what you’re interested in, usually without you ever knowing it.

What is Trackography?

Trackography is an open source project of Tactical Tech that aims to increase transparency about the online data industry by illustrating who tracks us online and where our data travels to when we access websites. In particular, Trackography shows:

  • the companies that track us
  • the countries which host the servers of the websites we access
  • the countries which host the servers of tracking companies
  • the countries which host the network infrastructure required to reach the servers of websites and tracking companies
  • information about how some of the “globally prevailing tracking companies” handle our data based on their privacy policies.

Extracted from https://myshadow.org/self-doxing-exploring-you-visible-data-traces

Self-doxing: exploring your visible data traces

Taking a deeper look at your visible online footprint can be a first step toward taking more control over your data and managing your online identity/identities

Most of us have probably searched our own name at some point. But search engines don’t pick up everything. Investigating yourself on the internet is also known as ‘self-doxing’, and it can be a very useful way to see what’s already out there about you, and make decisions for the future

Once you’ve doxed yourself, take a critical look at the data, think about what a stranger may be able to figure out with just a little effort. You might want to keep certain things private or separate your online identities.

Extracted from https://myshadow.org/trace-my-shadow

Trace My Shadow

Trace my shadow is a tool that allows you to get a glimpse into the digital traces you’re leaving – how many, what kinds, and from what devices.

Start by selecting the device and services that you use. See how many traces you leave and what you can do take control of you traces.

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-day-trackography/2016/03/27/feed 0 55042 TTP and the Corporate Coup d’Etat https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ttp-and-the-corporate-coup-detat/2015/03/22 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ttp-and-the-corporate-coup-detat/2015/03/22#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:00:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=49312 Just a reminder, if one is needed, that the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP is still being worked on, even despite the almost-universal opposition from anyone not connected with a multinational corporation (and of course I include governments as being heavily connected with corporations at this late stage of capitalism). This article from Joyce Nelson in... Continue reading →

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]]> TPPJust a reminder, if one is needed, that the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP is still being worked on, even despite the almost-universal opposition from anyone not connected with a multinational corporation (and of course I include governments as being heavily connected with corporations at this late stage of capitalism).

This article from Joyce Nelson in The Ecologist offers a nice summary of what the TPP is from a North American perspective, and who will benefit from it:

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership contains something called ‘investor-state dispute settlement’ (ISDS) – a controversial trade-dispute mechanism now being included in most secretly-negotiated trade deals.

ISDS allows multinational corporations and investors to sue countries over policy or regulations that hinder their future profits. These lawsuits are secretly tried in special ‘arbitration tribunals’ – courts that are basically privately run by the corporate sector, with the lawyers and judges selected from a few corporate law firms.”

If you’ve heard of the TPP but want to get up to speed with exactly what is proposed for its contents, and why it is imperative that we stop it becoming law, read more.

The image is by DonkeyHotey on flickr (CC Licence).

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