John Briggs
Burlington Free Press
September 23, 2011
Jeff Chester, who heads the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington, D.C., was in Burlington on Thursday to deliver a warning that our personal data and our personal habits are being systematically collected and marketed for corporate and political gain.
“Powerful forces,” he said, “are shaping the future of the Internet and other digital media.”
Chester was invited to town for two talks, one at noon Thursday at the First Congregational Church and an evening presentation at Champlain College. Sponsors were the Center for Media and Democracy and organizations including Seven Days, the American Civil Liberties Union, Champlain College, the University of Vermont Libraries, Vermont Commons, Front Porch Forum, United Way of Chittenden County and the Vermont Library Association.
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Actually, with these new “smart meters” the power companies are putting in, it is possible to “fingerprint” what you are viewing on your computer monitor, unless you use an Uninterruptible Power Supply, which draws the power from the batteries, insted of directly from the grid.
They can measure the flucuations in power usage that your monitor or TV uses, and fingerprint what you are viewins that way.