{"id":4280,"date":"2017-06-27T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:21","slug":"data-and-your-online-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/data-and-your-online-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Data and your online identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4282\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4282\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-e1499971687286.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1Pz5gJ\">Hamza Butt\/flickr, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Cheney-Lippold,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of American culture at U-M and author of the book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/9781479857593\/\"><em>We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves<\/em><\/a>, helps explain the difference between data that is trying to sell you a product, and data that truly knows who you are as a person. \u201cI think we should take the idea of U.S. privacy law, which is the right to be let alone, and think about it in an a subject sense,\u201d Cheney-Lippold said. \u201cHow am I in this moment being controlled?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/michiganradio.org\/post\/how-companies-government-use-vast-data-collections-build-your-online-identity\">Listen to WUOM&#8217;s &#8220;Stateside&#8221; conversation with Cheney-Lippold<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cheney-Lippold,\u00a0assistant professor of American culture at U-M and author of the book\u00a0We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, helps explain the difference between data that is trying to sell you a product, and data that truly knows who you are as a person. \u201cI think we should take the idea of U.S. privacy\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/data-and-your-online-identity\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,121],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-data","tag-privacy"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-e1499971687286.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-e1499971687286.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-e1499971687286.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/34970782105_ac8b56276f_o-e1499971687286.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"John Cheney-Lippold,\u00a0assistant professor of American culture at U-M and author of the book\u00a0We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, helps explain the difference between data that is trying to sell you a product, and data that truly knows who you are as a person. \u201cI think we should take the idea&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}