Taking Control of Your Personal Data

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You hear the stories every day: Your household devices are spying on you. Your private social media data has been leaked to the world. Another big online company has had a data breach and your personal information has been exposed. An algorithm has decided what product you should buy. Every day, it seems your control slips away. Professor Biography......Page 3 Table of Contents......Page 4 Course Scope......Page 5 Lecture 1—How Your Data Tells Secrets......Page 6 Artificial Intelligence Algorithms......Page 7 Machine Learning Algorithms......Page 9 Homophily and Correlations......Page 12 Lecture 2—The Mechanics of Data Harvesting......Page 15 How—and How Much—Information Is Collected......Page 16 Shadow Profiling......Page 20 Lecture 3—Privacy Preferences: It’s All about You......Page 26 The Privacy Spectrum......Page 27 Types of Data to Control......Page 30 So What Can You Do?......Page 34 Lecture 4—The Upside of Personal Data Use......Page 36 Simple Applications of Personal Data......Page 37 Online Advertising......Page 39 Recommender Systems......Page 41 So What Can You Do?......Page 44 Lecture 5—Online Tracking: Yes, You’re Being Followed......Page 46 How the Web and the Internet Work......Page 47 Tracking with Cookies and JavaScript......Page 49 Tracking with Browser Information......Page 50 Tracking by Your ISP......Page 52 So What Can You Do?......Page 53 Lecture 6—Nowhere to Hide? Privacy under Surveillance......Page 57 Monitoring of Health-Related Data......Page 58 Facial Recognition Technology......Page 60 Tattoo Recognition......Page 63 Advertising Kiosks......Page 64 So What Can You Do?......Page 65 Lecture 7—Consent: The Heart of Privacy Control......Page 67 The Ethics of Consent......Page 68 Facebook’s Social Contagion Experiment......Page 69 Transparency and Control......Page 71 Questions of Law......Page 74 So What Can You Do?......Page 75 Lecture 8—Data Scandals and the Lessons They Teach......Page 77 The Cambridge Analytica Scandal......Page 78 The Failure of Google Buzz......Page 80 Employer Social Media Spying......Page 82 The Ashley Madison Hack......Page 84 So What Can You Do?......Page 85 Lecture 9—The Dark Web: Where Privacy Rules......Page 87 Using the Tor Browser......Page 88 Dark Web Anatomy......Page 90 Dark Web Activities......Page 92 So What Can You Do?......Page 94 Lecture 10—Algorithmic Bias: When AI Gets It Wrong......Page 96 Bias in Algorithms......Page 97 Inscrutability of Algorithms......Page 100 So What Can You Do?......Page 101 Lecture 11—Privacy on the Global Stage......Page 105 United States......Page 106 Europe......Page 108 China......Page 111 So What Can You Do?......Page 113 Lecture 12—Navigating the Future of Personal Data......Page 115 DNA as Personal Data......Page 116 The Future of Privacy Regulations......Page 120 The Legislative Future of Personal Data......Page 121 So What Can You Do?......Page 123 Resources......Page 126 Image Credits......Page 132