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Defense against Black Arts

Book review written by Tori Aarseth
Today, more and more people are becoming aware of how much personal information is stored when using online services such as Facebook and Google. But did you know that everything you do on the internet is tracked by a number of companies you've never heard of?

(THIS ARTICLE IS ONLY MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

When you sit down with your morning coffee to read today's news online, it is clear that the news site you are visiting is detecting that your laptop or mobile has connected. At the same moment, several third parties also connect to what you are reading. Some of them are visible on the page and known, such as the Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons, while others remain invisible to you. When visiting the front page of five major Norwegian websites today, the laptop was contacted by closer 100 third party sites, and after surfing around inside Dagbladet.no, contact was made with over 50 third party sites only there.

Big brother who? Who are these companies, and why do they collect information? In order for Ny Tid to find the information in the example above, Firefox was used with the Lightbeam extension installed. The extension creates a list and a graphical representation of all third-party websites you connect to, including who leaves cookies. . .

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Tori Aarseth
Aarseth is a political scientist and a regular journalist at Ny Tid.

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