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Selling Your Bulk Online Data Really Means Selling Your Autonomy

ByThe Webmaster 03/05/201612/04/2025

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By Evgeny Morozov In March, a Dutch student called Shawn Buckles placed his personal data on the market. He offered to hand over all of his most intimate electronic matter—e-mails, health records, calendars, geolocational data—to the highest bidder. By mid-April, Buckles had received 53 offers. The winner of the auction was The Next Web, a popular…

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Google launches tool to manage ‘digital afterlife’

ByThe Webmaster 13/05/201320/06/2025

Users can decide what happens with their email and other accounts after they die. Google has launched a tool that lets users decide what happens with their email, Google Plus and other accounts after they die – or become inactive online for any other reason. Called “inactive account manager,” the feature lets users of Google’s…

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Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns

ByThe Webmaster 09/05/2013

Search terms implied that people are 24 percent less likely to consider suicide in the summer, among other seasonal fluctuations that may be useful in epidemiology for illnesses that are difficult to track. LINDSAY ABRAMS APR 9 2013, 8:21 AM ET PROBLEM: Google overhyped the flu this year, which seemed to be a blow to the company’s claim that…

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How To Manage Your Digital Afterlife

ByRamon Thomas 29/04/2013

If the psychologist Carl Jung was alive today, he may have said, your digital world is your shadow. In many ways it’s the best representation of your personality and your aspirations because of its interactive nature. When you misrepresent yourself, you’re bound to receive feedback pointing this out. Twitter streams are like a public journals…

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Google hosts online safety workshops

ByThe Webmaster 08/02/201313/04/2025

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Safer Internet Day (SID), Google SA joined forces with its online child safety campaign partners and hosted online safety workshops for Johannesburg learners and parents to ‘connect with respect’. Supported by the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund; MXit; Parent’s Corner; Media Monitoring Africa; Childline SA; Department of Women, Children and…