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Stephen Downes

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Today is Data Privacy Day, says Firefox, and to celebrate the moment they've launched Lightbeam: "Create a 'Wizard of Oz' moment by pulling back the curtain to see who's watching you on the Web. Turn on Mozilla's Lightbeam tool, visit a handful of websites to see who's tracking you, and then learn how to fight back. You'll never look at the Web the same way again!" I tried it out and it works quite well (you may need to reload the tool to get the graph to refresh). The circles are visited sites and the triangles are applications that are tracking you as you visit the sites.

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