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Articles by Julia Angwin
Facebook Doesn't Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
Facebook Doesn't Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., Surya Mattu · The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. · Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes
6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes
Julia Angwin · In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech.
Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords
Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords
Julia Angwin · In the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of blog posts, I try to distill the lessons from my privacy experiments into a series of useful tips for readers.