Episode 261: Ways We Are All Getting Torq'd

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I didn’t really know how much advertisers surveil us. I started to look into it. Then I stopped looking: how much we have all lost our privacy was just too scary. I look back on 10 years of reading in this Episode 261: Ways We Are All Getting Torq'd.

In this episode, I read from: a smart TV manufacturer's owner's manual (the original of which is no longer available after ten years); two articles about smart TVs, one from the Daily Beast, another from Gigaom; a New York Times Magazine article about store purchase history data crunching; a New Scientist article about Michal Kosinski's research; the abstract of Kosinski's research; a Motherboard article about what happened after others stole Kosinski's ideas; and Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother.

I play: content from a smart TV maker bragging about how intrusive and useful to advertisers their smart TVs really were (a video which was pulled from the Intertubes so fast it left skid marks). Shoshana Zuboff opens the show backed by KMFDM; and I close today with Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang doing "Over The Rainbow".