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.'
The surveillance program PRISM by the US secret service NSA has reminded us that all of our activities online may be monitored without giving us the chance to understand whether we really are targeted or what the purpose of this monitoring is. Information is being collected about us all but we have little understanding about how it is being used.
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.”
It is not easy to keep up to date with how Facebook changes. Some things change for better, some for worse. Can you be sure that you didn't miss the latest update of Facebook's terms of service? Here's the second post in a series about how to protect you privacy when using Facebook.
False Privacy Notice
It is not easy to keep up to date with how Facebook changes. Some things change for better, some for worse. Can you be sure that you didn't miss the latest update of Facebook's terms of service? These are some of the changes you might be interested in.
HTTPS by default
We have created a set of 5 cards that you can download, print out and distribute to friends and colleagues. These cards are aimed at raising awareness about our 'digital shadows' and providing information about how to protect your privacy.
Their topics are
The use of the Internet, mobile phones and other digital devices has become integral to our everyday life. Many can't imagine life without a digital presence. However, there is no magic cloak that makes us invisible whilst moving through cyber worlds.
Whenever we use digital devices, surf on the Internet or are active on Facebook or Twitter, we voluntarily leave information about ourselves. More so, our digital adventures often leave large traces about ourselves without our complete understanding of what these are.
Although most people realise that Twitter is a public platform, some do not realise that their tweets can be viewed by anyone, anywhere in the world, and can often notify complete strangers as to what they are doing and where they are going.
