(Malala Yousafzai. Image: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian)

(Image: Mashable)

Lightbeam -- a new (free) extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser --  promises to "illuminate the inner workings of the web" by showing us exactly who is watching our online activity, right now.

 
(panels from the comic strip based on the single "WWPRD", published in The Guardian)

 
(From skytruth.org)

(From the Naming the Dead homepage)

The CIA claims no there have been no civilian deaths by drone... but a new project by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism aims to use the evidence to challenge this claim. The website, "Naming the Dead", will publicly record the names of all those who have been killed by drone strike.

(Screenshot from "It's Your Fault", by All India Bakchod)

From India's comedy collective All India Bakchod, a video responding to the victim-blaming that women in India so often experience when it comes to cases of rape and sexual assault.

Memopol, by Estonian artist Timo Toots, maps your information field on big, customised displays.  Insert your ID card or passport into the machine to see what information about you is available on national and international databases and the Internet. Says the artist on his homepage: "Memopol enables us to make a thorough background check of ourselves, mirroring back to us all the data about us that is recorded."

If you're a journalist who works with geo data, this is for you: the Geojournalism handbook, from the  Environmental News Lab (Ecolab) and partners.

GIST, (Government Interrogating Spending Tool), provides "an accessible breakdown of government expenditure for use by the public".