Summer is typically slow-going in the journalism world, but a team of journalism students at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism was hard at work, researching and building out a package of stories on data privacy that included two interactive pieces
One Flash piece is a interactive video-based time line that follows a woman named Brook Alexander through her daily routine in D.C., where she checks her email, drives, takes the Metro, goes shopping and works out. Along the way, she leaves breadcrumbs of data that make their way into corporate and government databases. You get to watch her quotidian activities then read where that data goes, what the privacy policy is, and how the federal government can access the data. You might also learn that Safeway uses web bugs in its promotional emails. [ MORE ]
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