Summary

"Tracking our online trackers" is a transcript of Gary Kovacs’ TED talk from 2012. Gary Kovacs is a Canadian technology innovator. He has worked for such companies as IBM, Adobe and Mozilla Corporation.

In his talk, Gary Kovacs talks about both advantages and disadvantages of living in a connected world. He discusses the way the expansion of Internet affects our privacy. According to Kovacs, data collection is not a wrong thing in itself, as long as companies require one's permission to do so.

However, he argues that most companies use our data without us even knowing it. He shares his experience with Collusion, a software that shows who is tracking your data when you surf the Internet. In just one day, more than 150 websites were following h...