samantha summers
A Failed Instagram Experiment.
Back in the summer, I had what I thought was an excellent idea. I would open a new Instagram account and, for one month, try to live life like an influencer. I hoped it would be an experiment that shed some light on the impact living a public digital life could have on a person. […]
The Weakest Link(edIn): How I fixed my LinkedIn in a few simple steps
I first created a LinkedIn account in 2012. Like many people with many social media accounts, I created it and then left it dormant for years. I would update it sporadically; perhaps changing a phrase or two, but never giving it the full-on rewrite it needed. I knew it was a bad representation of who […]
Book Review: Invisible Women
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Digital Tattoo Rating: 5/5 1 2 3 4 5 Leave it on the shelf Give it a skim An informative read Would give to a friend A must read!!! Very few books horrify me. There was a horror […]
Back to School Safety
Ah, September. The beginning of a fresh academic year. Hopeful students both incoming and returning will be flocking Canadian campuses over the next few weeks armed with new notebooks (electronic or otherwise) and reinvigorated aspirations for the coming twelve months. It’s an exciting time of year, but it’s also a time of year when it […]
How to Protect Your Digital Identity Based on Your Zodiac Sign
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 […]
Clear: Convenience is in the eye of the beholder
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 […]
Report from RightsCon: Queerness and the Politics of Visibility
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. […]
Online Safety in the LGBTQ+ Community
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 […]
Job-seeking in the Digital Age
As this academic year draws to a close, students looking toward their graduation with be flooding the job market looking for exciting opportunities to start off their careers. Many of them will head straight to the internet to kick-off their job search, relying on online career seeking services to put them in touch with potential […]
Book Review: Data and Goliath
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World Bruce Schneier (2015) Digital Tattoo Rating: 4/5 1 2 3 4 5 Leave it on the shelf Give it a skim An informative read Would give to a friend A must read!!! Summary Once, while talking with Digital Tattoo contributor Elyse, […]
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