Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo.
According to Michael Rigley, the average user has 736 pieces of personal data collected every day and service providers store this information for one to five years.
The video explores the “secret life of our MMS data and the tradeoffs we inadvertently face as we choose convenience of communication over privacy and control of personal data,” writes Maria Popova at BrainPickings.org.
We recommend this video because it explains in plain english the types of data people generate as they use their mobile devices, what metadata is and how it is then used to make meaning from the data and what is crucial is that most people don’t know about how long the information is stored and how it is used by the phone company.