By Eseohe Ojo on July 18, 2019 | Tagged with Digital Safety, Digital Security, Open Source, privacy
As we all increasingly become aware of privacy and digital safety issues, many of us want to be safer online but this is often hampered by the convenience versus safety battle that comes with this choice. One of the ways to improve on your digital safety is opting for open source software alternatives but more […]
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By samantha summers on July 11, 2019 | Tagged with astrology, cybersecurity, data, Data Collection, Digital identity, Digital literacy, Hacking, intellectual property, Network Smarts, privacy, safety, Social media, social_network, surveillance
We all can do more to protect ourselves online, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you out, we’ve come up with simple steps each Zodiac sign can take to increase their online safety. Let us know if your sign’s advice speaks to you, and let us know how […]
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By samantha summers on July 2, 2019 | Tagged with
It seems like something out of a James Bond film. A man in a suit walks through a bustling airport. He approaches a small blue box placed next to a door, and leans in. The box scans his iris, which matches it to a custom binary code that connects his iris and fingerprint with his […]
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By Eseohe Ojo on June 25, 2019 | Tagged with Digital identity, Digital Security, Gender, Online Safety
How does gender affect our experience of the modern, digital world we live in? Online spaces reflect offline realities with the added consequences of permanence, a wider audience, and increased visibility. We all have our different digital challenges and experiences but gender brings an added layer online just as it does offline. There are various […]
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By samantha summers on June 20, 2019 | Tagged with identity, LGBT, LGBTQ, privacy, privilege, queer, RightsCon, safety, Tunis
Hi, my name is Jamie Duncan. I was incredibly fortunate to represent the Digital Tattoo project at RightsCon 2019, the world’s largest conference on human rights in the digital age, in Tunis, Tunisia. I learned a ton and was asked to share some of this with the Digital Tattoo community through this blog post. […]
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By samantha summers on June 18, 2019 | Tagged with cyberstalking safety, LGBT, Online Safety, Pride, queer, safety
In many ways, I owe my own queerness to the Internet. It was through engaging with online LGBTQ+ communities that I first realized I’m queer, and through those same communities that I made some of my first LGBTQ+ friends. The Internet provided me with a space to go to seek and develop friendships with other […]
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By Eseohe Ojo on June 11, 2019 | Tagged with digital mindfulness, screen addiction, screen time
I got my weekly Screen Time notification and of course, Instagram was my most used application followed by Facebook which got about half as much screen time and Messages, my Google App and Twitter all in the top 5 of 60 apps on my iPhone. With an average of 2 hours, 55 minutes per day […]
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By defne inceoglu on June 4, 2019 | Tagged with affordable housing, AI, data, digital awareness, digital citizenship, education, Events, GOOD19, library, open data, Toronto, Toronto Public Library
I had the opportunity to attend the Go Open Data Conference or GOOD ’19 hosted this year at the breath-taking Toronto Reference Library in downtown Toronto. Being both a researcher, student and a contributor for Digital Tattoo, the conference included many themes and discussions around data which were of personal interest to me. My companion […]
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