Thousands Of Data Points

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Your favorite smartphone apps, your preferred weather forecaster, your go-to photo sharing app, and other seemingly benign technologies likely reveal details about your life to companies looking to collect consumer data. They're eager to gather thousands of data points on each and every one of us every single day because more data means better accuracy for algorithms seeking to predict human behavior. Data gathering can affect our lives in ways we can’t currently anticipate. But what about conscious consumerism? If companies can accurately predict our purchasing behavior - and if they're putting *perfectly* curated advertisements in front of us over and over again - do we minimalists stand a fighting chance? October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (who knew?!). While keeping your personal information safe online can seem overwhelming there are simple ways to both protect your data and trick the algorithms. Amira Dhalla is on the show today to offer a blueprint about how you can be cyber smart-er. Here's a preview: [2:00] Beware of these 'deceptive patterns' that trick us into giving away extra personal information [10:00] The principles of threat monitoring applied to online privacy: Are quick-win benefits worth potential long-term risks? [12:30] Why you shouldn't automatically "Accept All Cookies" (online cookies aren't all that tasty!) [17:00] 5 privacy quick fixes you can enact in 5 minutes or less [28:00] Thoughts on practicing an ounce of prevention Resources mentioned: Firefox browser DuckDuck Go search engine securityplanner.org 30-Second Privacy Fixes: Simple Ways to Protect Your Data (via Consumer Reports) -- * Join our (free!) community here. * Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. * Email me and say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. -- Thank you to our sponsors! Thrive Market: head to thrivemarket.com/sustainable for your $60 free gift. Nutrafol: get free shipping and $15 off with promo code SUSTAINABLE. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw! https://lifestraw.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-content

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0:00.0	It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the
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1:05.7	Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 313 of Sustainable Minimalists,
1:11.9	a twice weekly show about you guessed it. of Sustainable and Sustainable Minimalist Living. In minimalist circles, we often discuss the importance
1:22.3	of putting up barriers to purchasing, right?
1:26.2	Make buying harder for yourself so that you don't bring home items that you don't need and
1:31.4	will simply be tomorrow's clutter.
1:35.0	But in 2022, putting up barriers to online purchases
1:40.0	is so darn difficult, and that's precisely because companies know an awful lot about us.
1:48.0	They know the websites we peruse, they know how we vote, they know precisely what topics we search for on our favorite search engine
1:57.0	and they certainly know our age, our gender,
2:01.0	and in many cases our location, our geographic location. our
2:03.0	location, our geographic location.
2:06.0	This means then that the ads that we see on the internet
2:10.0	are highly targeted, highly curated for us.
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