Understanding the privacy paradox
Foundational perspectives on why people value privacy while continuing to exchange data for convenience.
The Privacy Paradox
The tension between convenience, security, and protection.
Vittoria ↗ 02Americans and Privacy
Research on concern, confusion, and the feeling of lost control.
Pew Research Center ↗ 03How Companies Use Data
An introduction to the commercial value of personal information.
CB Screening ↗Practical ways to reduce exposure
Tools are not a complete solution, but they can meaningfully change who sees your activity and how it is stored.
When data power becomes visible
Major events and policies that changed how the public understands profiling, surveillance, and consent.
Books, films, and organizations
Long-form works and advocacy groups for continuing the investigation beyond this simulation.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff on the economic logic of behavioral data.
Book ↗ 11Data and Goliath
Bruce Schneier on the hidden systems that collect and control data.
Book ↗ 12Citizenfour
A documentary about Edward Snowden and state surveillance.
Film ↗ 13Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital-rights advocacy, analysis, and practical guidance.
Organization ↗ 14Privacy International
Global research and advocacy focused on surveillance.
Organization ↗ 15Center for Digital Democracy
Policy work on privacy, platforms, and consumer protection.
Organization ↗A small language for a large system
- Surveillance capitalism
- The commercial collection of behavioral data to predict and influence future actions.
- GDPR
- A European Union regulation governing how organizations collect, use, and retain personal data.
- Encryption
- The conversion of information into a protected form readable only with the correct key.
- Anonymization
- The removal or transformation of identifiers intended to prevent people from being reidentified.