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Strava 170M rides&runs #Heatmap shows most popular #bike & #run trails of 2015 with #BigData #GPS #crowdsourcing

Strava 170M rides&runs #Heatmap shows most popular #bike & #run trails of 2015 with #BigData #GPS #crowdsourcing | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
From labs.strava.com - March 26, 2017 7:06 AM
100 million rides and runs, 220 billion data points visualizing the best roads and trails worldwide.
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Big brother is watching and when it does you can gain tremendous insights into the behaviour of humans. I zoomed in on Montreal and the diagram is very clear about which run trails are most popular on the Mount Royal. On the dark side, of course, this means Strava performs some high level surveillance on us as we share our bike and run rides with their software.

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Eric Hunter's curator insight, March 27, 2017 11:43 AM
Taking this beyond just being really cool, into value creating is the next challenge. Great #dataviz work!
 
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The Internet Health Report: @mozilla 

The Internet Health Report: @mozilla  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
From internethealthreport.org - January 31, 2017 6:30 AM

Mozilla’s new open source initiative to document and explain what’s happening to the health of the Internet. Combining research from multiple sources, we collect data on five key topics and offer a brief overview of each.

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Mozilla has always been promoting Internet security and privacy and this new report paves the way for a very interesting ongoing look at key elements of the public Internet.

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Are You Sure You Want to Know What Google/Apple/Facebook Knows About You? #privacyAware @dataPrivacyDay 

Are You Sure You Want to Know What Google/Apple/Facebook Knows About You? #privacyAware @dataPrivacyDay  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
From www.marketingpilgrim.com - January 28, 2017 5:35 PM

The Wall Street Journal did an interesting piece looking at Google, privacy and the extent of their knowledge (as well as other entities like Facebook). I suggest you read it for the details. The following image gives some insight into just how much Google has on one WSJ reporter.

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On this Data Privacy Day 2017, I thought I would review what Google, Apple, Facebook and others know about me. Unfortunately, it looks like this information is difficult to find and pretty much the only data we can find is from Google. So, let's assume Apple, Facebook, twitter, and others know as much if not more.

Google tools that will show you what they know about you:

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Wo's curator insight, January 31, 2017 3:05 PM
Yut got to know this!
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Behavioral #tracking explained in 9min #video by @gary_kovacs via @TED #mustsee #PrivacyAware @dataPrivacyDay  

From www.ted.com - January 28, 2017 4:48 PM
As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
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If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.

 

 

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I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.

 

On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.

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Farid Mheir's curator insight, September 14, 2013 12:02 PM

I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet.


This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
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