{"id":1734,"date":"2014-05-12T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2014-05-12T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:53:29","slug":"can-you-hide-from-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Can you hide from Big Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone tried.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data? Thinking about technology\u2014the way we use it and the way it uses us\u2014is her professional life\u2019s work. Pregnant women, she knew, are a marketing gold mine; a pregnant woman\u2019s marketing data is worth 15 times as much as the average person\u2019s. Could Vertesi, a self-declared \u201cconscientious objector\u201d of Google ever since 2012, when they announced to users that they\u2019d be able to read every email and chat, navigate all the human and consumer interactions having a baby would require and keep big data from ever finding out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2014\/04\/29\/3432050\/can-you-hide-from-big-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her Pregnancy From Big Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"TMI: Theorizing Big Data (Cleaner Audio)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GaLpMwdPrYw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><script type=\"application\/json\" data-arve-oembed>{\n    \"title\": \"TMI: Theorizing Big Data (Cleaner Audio)\",\n    \"author_name\": \"theorizingtheweb\",\n    \"author_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theorizingtheweb\",\n    \"type\": \"video\",\n    \"height\": 551,\n    \"width\": 980,\n    \"version\": \"1.0\",\n    \"provider_name\": \"YouTube\",\n    \"provider_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\",\n    \"thumbnail_height\": 360,\n    \"thumbnail_width\": 480,\n    \"thumbnail_url\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/GaLpMwdPrYw\/hqdefault.jpg\",\n    \"arve_iframe_src\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GaLpMwdPrYw?feature=oembed\",\n    \"arve_provider\": \"youtube\",\n    \"arve_cachetime\": \"2024-06-07T22:23:34+02:00\",\n    \"arve_url\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GaLpMwdPrYw&feature=youtu.be\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_small\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/GaLpMwdPrYw\/hq720.webp\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_large\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/GaLpMwdPrYw\/hq720.webp\",\n    \"arve_srcset\": \"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/GaLpMwdPrYw\/hq720.webp 1280w\"\n}<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Big surprise: it&#8217;s extremely hard. Furthermore, that sort of behaviour gets you flagged as someone behaving really, really suspiciously. Less like someone privacy-counscious, more like a terrorist. (<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/04\/26\/big-data-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"no social media\" src=\"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/05\/Screen-shot-2014-05-12-at-12.49.49-1-1024x640.png\" width=\"717\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone tried. \u00a0Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data? Thinking about technology\u2014the way we use it and the way it uses us\u2014is her professional life\u2019s work. Pregnant women, she knew, are a marketing gold mine; a pregnant woman\u2019s marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,59,60,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-current","category-hiding","category-liberation-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}