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Featured image by Stefan Steinbauer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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About the episode<\/h1>\n

Manoush gets started by taking a dive into the psychological and philosophical sides of privacy. They cover a story where someone’s partner, who had recently passed away, had a photo of them in the morgue appear in the Google search results for their name. It did get taken down, but what the heck!?<\/p>\n

What about those who tell you, “I don’t care about this privacy stuff, I don’t have anything to hide”? I know quite a few people that parrot this time and time again. It is not<\/p>\n

Apply Magic Sauce<\/h1>\n

The task for today’s challenge is to use this tool called Apply Magic Sauce<\/a>, developed by researchers at Cambridge. The episode doesn’t say much more about the researchers, but I now wonder how this is related to the spin off for psychological profiling, Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n

Connect with Facebook Results: <\/strong>prediction failed. I’ll try this again some other time I guess. (update: I tried this before the news broke about Cambridge Analytica and the Facebook data leak. One thing I’m wondering now that I hope Note to Self picks up on is if today’s task has exposed use to more harm than good).<\/p>\n

Connect with Twitter Results: <\/strong>ok well, I don’t think I gave Twitter my birthday and they nailed my current age. They gave me an exact guess as well as “Your digital footprint suggests that your online behaviour resembles that of a 30-39 years old”.<\/p>\n

Next up is my psychological Gender, “Your digital footprint is fairly androgynous; it suggests you\u2019re probably Male but you don\u2019t repress your feminine side.”<\/p>\n

Apply magic cause then gives you “the big 5” breakdown. So they give a statement about the category then based on your digital footprint, they describe what they might derive from it.<\/p>\n