NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information.

Zynga, the company behind popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Cityville, is expected to have its initial public offering before the end... Cow Clicker Founder: If You Can't Ruin It, Destroy ...

For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. It feels like a long time ago. Obama was serving his first term as president. Google+ hadn’t arrived, let ...

How often have you wished you could click your cow while waiting for your latte, or while listening to a hipster friend's soulless, rapid-fire drone through obscure bands, or after having already ...

The revelations that Cambridge Analytica paid for data scraped from millions of users surprised many people - not our next guest. In 2010, Ian Bogost created an app called "Cow Clicker" - you clicked ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ian Bogost about data collected from Facebook-connected apps. In 2010, Bogost launched Cow Clicker, a parody game that inadvertently collected a lot of user information.