Privacy

Who’s watching?

A quest to be noticed but not to be watched

There were times when people were aware of the surveillance by secret service agencies, like NSA, and they complied with the idea because it was for the greater benefit and security of all the citizens…

Can we design for transparency?

This post was written for Molly Steenson’s Seminar I: Interaction & Service Design Concepts 2016, CMU School of Design.

We are living in the age where information on every step of our lives are being collected and analyzed. From the way we shop, to…

Big data, data mining and algorithms. Whose the villain?

Let’s ask the right questions.

They know me better than I know myself

There is no such thing as online privacy

Although I was born in the 90’s, I didn’t come into contact with computers until the turn of the century. In fact, I didn’t even know what computer was until I moved to…

Anu aunty’s of the internet age.

What’s the big deal with Facebook selling my ‘personal’ data?

Living in Big Data Culture

who are the all-knowing deities?

“We don’t know what we don’t know.”

While Donald Rumsfeld’s statement may not have been in reference to Big Data and algorithmic curation of information on the internet, it is definitely an appropriate reference now. The amount of data that is being collected on you at this very moment is staggering…