Allen D. Kanner: The Piracy of Privacy

Allen D. Kanner: The Piracy of Privacy
A psychologist argues that the strategies and high-tech tools used by marketers are having a negative effect on their target audience's psychological health.

"iPhone Keeps Record of Everywhere You Go"
A 2011 article in The Guardian explains how GPS technology in iPhones tracks and stores users' locations everywhere they go. Beyond the threat to individual privacy, the article questions Apple's motives in archiving location data for up to a year, speculating that its likely purpose could be to aid future marketing efforts for the company.

"Facebook's Privacy Settings: 7 Things You Need to Know"
This Huffington Post article offers a video summary of new Facebook privacy settings introduced in August 2011, allowing users to comprehend the changes and how to use them most effectively.

"World Privacy Forum: Behavioral Advertising and Privacy"
This website describes the practice of behavioral advertising in detail and also offers a list of resources to help better understand how it impacts individuals' privacy, as well as a timeline.

"Minority Report facial recognition advertising has arrived"
An Extreme Tech article from 2011 detailing the advanced in technology that allows certain shop windows to customize displays based on facial recognition software. While the technology only currently recognizes sex and race, there are many speculations as to how this practice will evolve.