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18.Jun Welcome to Digital Self-Defense 2.0
Hard to believe, but two and a half years have passed since the first edition of “Fake It!” came out in the fall of 2012. So much has happened, so...
30.Sep Keep your searches for problems, pet peeves, pills, and porn private
Show me your search patterns, and I’ll tell you who you are. Your vacation dreams. Your health worries. Your job situation, your hobbies, if you are gay, hetero, single,...
24.May The Illusion of Privacy: You are Not in Control
By STEFFAN HEUER and PERNILLE TRANBERG Published first in The Daily Dot Are you an avid user of Snapchat, that kind of person who likes bits that go poof?...
02.May We made “Book of the Week” – and we’re not faking it
The German weekly der Freitag has named the German edition of “Fake It!” its book of the week, wrapped in a very comprehensive overview of the topics of data...
24.Apr Data Brokers Put Your Digital Identity in Their “Banks”
Data brokers is a very lucrative business. Here, at Finnish television TV1 (8.05 minutes in), I am explaining that 1 post on social media or 1 search on a...
11.Apr At TEDxOxford to talk of the dangers of being a datasexual
TEDxOxford University invited me to Oxford to speak in front of 600 people about our book “Fake It!” Here I introduced the phenomenon of the “datasexual” – a...
08.Apr When Big Data Does Good
Our column in The Daily Dot: Search results can help predict flu outbreaks. Location data can prove that malaria spreads through human travel rather than mosquitos. Crime stats can...
22.Mar Being Public is a new competence we all have to learn
Fake It got a lot of coverage, when it was launched in Finland March 25th 2013. One of the interesting discussions of the book was a talkshow called Bettinas....
15.Mar Maintaining Privacy With An Alter Ego
By Pernille Tranberg Ruth Carter from Carter Law Firm attended our session at South By Southwest last Sunday. She wrote a blog post about it, where she write that...
11.Mar My real identity performed at SXSW 2013
Speaking at SXSW 2013 about our book Fake It was an amazing experience. At a conference where curiosity rules and scepticism is for scientists, NGOs, journalists and alike, it...