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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2007-11-05 11:55 pm
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We are watching you.


Meanwhile, believe it or not there's a one pixel gif just here: which allows me to track you, tell what your IP address is, which filter you read me on, and how often you drop by.

In fact, let's display some of that information:


It's amazing how little privacy you have, isn't it?
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[identity profile] themongkey.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Adblock, mofos, adblock.

Track me once, shame on you. Track me twice, shame on me...

[identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, this makes PC-Cillin freak out with warnings. Hah!

[identity profile] ahsirakh.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Meaningless. Now, if you could track my movements once I've left your site...

Re: tracking

[identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
It would work better if you put size tags on your images so that it showed up in my friends page rather than clicking through.

[identity profile] wolflady26.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Which is why I find it so funny when people go into paroxysms of terror and fury when LJ collects aggregated data...

[identity profile] accordingly.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
That's... weird :(

I signed up to that site but never quite understood it. I'm not sure if I'd really want to know anyway! It's like on okcupid {I'm on it for the quizzes I swear...} there's some feature where you can see who's been looking at your profile, and other people can see when you look at theirs. I turned it off once but curiosity got the better of me.

[identity profile] terminalmalaise.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
By the by, I'm actually about a third of the way through The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age which is pretty interesting so far. Solove is making the case that the true danger of the death of privacy isn't an Orwellian Big Brother but more of a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracies with digital dossiers on everyone and completely indifferent to the errors that might creep in and ruin someone's day (or life).

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
At least one of my friends uses an lj add-on that tells her who is reading their journal, how recently they read it and similar information.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Speaking of tracking - these are terrifying.

When those AOL search logs got out onto the internets, an SA goon went through them and collated some information.

The series of searches that some people made.

The person who first searched for "drinking 5 drinks a day" and then, after a few searches "drinking 10-15 drinks a day" probably isn't too great. The series of three searches by one person starting "hermit crabs" then "taking care of hermit crab" and finally "how to know hermit crab is dead" are just sad.

one, two and three
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