Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/4/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Today, let’s look at the final steps in digitizing music from old vinyl onto our our electronic devices. And, since it’s a major shopping season, it might be worthwhile to take a look at a recent academic study on “Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites.” If you’d like to read it for yourself, go to www.css.neu.edu/home/cbw/pdf/imc151-hannak.pdf.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/13/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Today, let’s take a more detailed look at the Verizon Wireless program that is tracking and profiling and selling information about 106 million customers who are, of course, paying Verizon for the privilege of being tracked online, and what Verizon Wireless, and maybe AT&T Mobile, customers can go about it. Unfortunately, the answer is not much.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/30/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Well, it’s Halloween week so it’s a good time to take a peek at a few digital tricks floating around cyberspace like Verizon Wireless tracking their users’ interests and selling that info to marketers or the mischief that bad people could get up to with medical devices that have all sorts of vulnerabilities. Don’t worry, there are treats on the web, too, and we’ll get to some of them next time.

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