Stefanie’s list of questions is a good place to start for really anyone. “Who – who specifically does it help? What – what problem does it solve? When – do you know the right time to post it on social for maximum reach? Where – are you posting it on the right channels where your…
Gone to a protest lately? Seen a lot of advertising about voting, or BLM, or related subjects since then? That’s no coincidence. “Jason Berlin, founder of a voter-registration group called Field Team 6, told the WSJ that such location-based tactics are “deeply spooky yet extremely helpful.” Field Team 6 uses Facebook to deliver targeted advertising…
What do we know about human nature, especially teenagers? Once they understand how an algorithm works, they’ll start messing with it. “Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can’t be tied to a single person.” It certainly creates confusion for the algorithms in terms of what you might want…
Keeping Data Safe Starts with Tackling Insider Threats 12 Family Tech Support Tips for the Holidays Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance Analyzing a Mobile Device: What’s There? Chrome Warns if Your Password is Part of a Data Breach The fight over encrypted messaging is just beginning A…
I’m sure by now you’ve seen at least one, if not many, headlines making the claim that increased social media use by teens leads to depression. Maybe But also, maybe not. Take a listen to a podcast by Savvy Psychologist Jade Wu. In it, she takes a deeper look at the study and what it…
The recent flap about the FaceApp “old age” filter is somewhat instructive. As soon as it started going viral, there were scary media reports about how the company was stealing all of your photos, and storing them, and possibly “owning your face”. Really? Here the thing about every one of the articles that I saw….