Cynthia’s Data Diary 2/23

Phone:

  • Health data — steps taken, miles walked, flights of stairs taken
  • Map data — GPS location
  • Photos — photo of several flowers, a few dogs, screenshots of a few articles I read
  • Browser — Read the news (NYT, Slate, Nymag, New Yorker), browsed Twitter newsfeeds, liked a number of Tweets, browsed Instagram (mostly dog videos)
  • Texts — text conversations I had with a few friends where I sent them the screenshots I took from a few news articles
  • Messaging apps — Sent messages on FB Messenger, WeChat, Signal
  • Overall — Roaming data, connected to home wifi and used 4G, battery life data

Laptop

  • Microsoft Word — Wrote a few lines of a poem
  • Browser — purchased a pillow on Amazon, looked up a recipe for bread pudding, watched YouTube videos (watched many dog videos, some videos about babies, some comedy videos, a few celebrity interviews), read more news (NYT, BBC, Slate), browsed more Twitter, checked email on Gmail again

iPad

  • Watched a few episodes of show on Hulu

Transportation

  • Swiped bus pass twice

Services

  • Swiped in at the YMCA gym
  • Entered library but did not swipe library card (but not sure if presence was recorded in some other way?)

Purchasing

  • Swiped QR code at Whole Foods for Amazon membership, pretty sure all my motions are recorded the moment I step into a Whole Foods
  • Credit card data — CVS visit, Whole Foods visit, online Amazon purchase

Appliances

  • Smart fridge — I don’t think our fridge has Internet connectivity but it does record things such as the amount of ice left and when the filter needs to be replaced