Me and My Shadow has been shortlisted by The Daily Beast for their BEASTBEST Awards and has been described as a place to make a 'good start for eluding the NSA'.

It 'lets you figure out what sort of data footprint is left by your devices and internet access points so you can see how your digital habits affect your privacy.'

Facebook has some 1.1 billion active users. Some 200 million accounts are active at Twitter. Millions more shop at Amazon and other online retailers. But few have actually read the long passages of legalese before clicking "I agree" and typing in an address, e-mail, telephone number or credit card details.

We're delighted to announce that our website Me and My Shadow has been awarded a prestigious international online activism award for the most creative and original website.

English jury member Georgia Popplewell said of the site “Me and My Shadow presents in very playful and visually compelling way a means of allowing online users to see the digital traces that they leave through their online activities – and offers easy solutions to fixing them.” 

"A gentle introduction to exploring and understanding your data": Tactical Tech’s second course for the School of Data, building on our earlier course about cleaning data.

Tactical Tech has been working with the Open Knowledge Foundation on a new project of theirs called School of Data. In our never-ending quest to support rights advocates to work with data and create visual stories we are contributing three courses to this new online learning platform. The first course  - A Gentle Introduction to Cleaning Data - is up and ready to guide you through how to clean a dataset using a spreadsheet.