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Ever felt you’re being watched online? Marina Stephanova and Barbora Kudzmanaite from Luxembourg professional development meetup MICSE share their tips on limiting your online trail.
Most of us have surely been there – you open a website and have the haunting feeling it's reading your mind, as you are immediately served ads related to the exact same things you have just been chewing over. Convenient, indeed, but one cannot help but wonder what trails ads networks follow to pop up on our screens and what digital footprints we leave.
New technologies make our lives easier but they also invade our privacy in unprecedented ways. The cell phone that keeps you in touch with everybody also tracks your location. Your searches online should be nobody's business, but search engines are logging your activities, and making this precious data available to any third party willing to pay enough. The same applies to social media, which eavesdrop on the content you see, like and share. But why do online companies spend so much time tracking us? The answer is simple, to ensure that perfectly targeted ads appear on your screens, making you click on them without a second thought.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Digital+Footprint
Ever felt you’re being watched online? Marina Stephanova and Barbora Kudzmanaite from Luxembourg professional development meetup MICSE share their tips on limiting your online trail.
Most of us have surely been there – you open a website and have the haunting feeling it's reading your mind, as you are immediately served ads related to the exact same things you have just been chewing over. Convenient, indeed, but one cannot help but wonder what trails ads networks follow to pop up on our screens and what digital footprints we leave.
New technologies make our lives easier but they also invade our privacy in unprecedented ways. The cell phone that keeps you in touch with everybody also tracks your location. Your searches online should be nobody's business, but search engines are logging your activities, and making this precious data available to any third party willing to pay enough. The same applies to social media, which eavesdrop on the content you see, like and share. But why do online companies spend so much time tracking us? The answer is simple, to ensure that perfectly targeted ads appear on your screens, making you click on them without a second thought.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Digital+Footprint