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Welcome to Digital Tattoo!

Welcome to Digital Tattoo!

By defne inceoglu on August 25, 2020 | Tagged with animation, digital tattoo, introduction, Video

Welcome to the Digital Tattoo Project! We are excited to introduce ourselves to our new and existing audiences. 2019-2020 was a busy year for the Digital Tattoo Project – full of amazing content. To ring in the 2020 school year, check out our latest video above. We discuss what the Digital Tattoo Project is, what […]

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Unveiling the New Digital Tattoo Site

Unveiling the New Digital Tattoo Site

By Eseohe Ojo on October 25, 2019 | Tagged with Card Sorting, digital tattoo, Open Access Week, Website Development

Have you noticed the Digital Tattoo website has a new look? Can you tell the difference? Over the summer, we decided the Digital Tattoo website needed a new look. We wanted to make it easier to navigate and find the great resources and materials available on the site. This was the main goal of our […]

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Building Online Communities: Digital Tattoo at the IM Conference 2019

Building Online Communities: Digital Tattoo at the IM Conference 2019

By Monique Rodrigues on May 3, 2019 | Tagged with Building Online Community, Creative Commons, digital tattoo, Digital Tattoo Talks, open academia, open access

This year has been a very special one for the Digital Tattoo team. On the week of April 15, I flew to Toronto from Vancouver to participate on our very first Digital Tattoo Talks. The event was part of the Information and Museum Studies Conference hosted at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. This […]

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New on the Podcast: The City with Eyes

New on the Podcast: The City with Eyes

By bryan short on June 13, 2018 | Tagged with Bianca Wylie, digital tattoo, digital tattoo podcast, Episode 5, podcast, privacy, Sidewalk Labs, Sidewalk Toronto, Smart City, surveillance, technology, The City with Eyes

The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Episode 5 As the government of Canada slowly prepares to embrace the future of city building, a small plot of land races ahead to become the nation’s first smart city. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., is developing a proposal for 12 acres on the downtown […]

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Centuries-old medieval manuscripts added to UBC Library collection flickr photo by UBC Library shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license

Guerrilla Archiving

By katie wilson on March 29, 2017 | Tagged with Climate Change, Climate Data, Data Protection, digital tattoo, EPA, Guerrilla Archiving, Trump, United States, University of Toronto

On December 17, 2016 The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto hosted a Guerrilla Archiving Event to preserve American environmental data in preparation for the incoming President. There was concern leading up to the inauguration that the new administration under Trump would be hostile to evidence based environmental studies.  I had the pleasure of connecting with […]

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Allow Access to My Location?

Allow Access to My Location?

By katie wilson on February 1, 2017 | Tagged with access, Digital identity, digital tattoo, GPS, location, location sharing

Introduction How many times a day do applications on your phone ask to be allowed to access your location. Do you leave your location GPS on all the time? Do you know how to turn it off? If you’re not concerned with how companies like Google having access to your location, consider that with that […]

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Digital Identity Digest (October)

Digital Identity Digest (October)

By bryan short on September 29, 2016 | Tagged with Crap Detection, Digital Identity Digest, digital tattoo, Network Smarts, Online Safety, privacy, Protect

US citizens can register to vote within Snapchat application In an appeal to its young audience, the popular and ephemeral video sharing application, Snapchat, is encouraging young people to vote by allowing them to register within the application. The campaign is in partnership with Democracy Works’ TurboVote, and its advertisements will automatically be displayed in Snapchat Stories for […]

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Digital Identity Digest (September)

Digital Identity Digest (September)

By bryan short on September 5, 2016 | Tagged with Crap Detection, Digital identity, digital tattoo, facebook, Network Smarts, social_network

Facebook is changing the way that WhatsApp works When Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014, there was a promise that the privacy of the popular messaging application’s millions of users’ wouldn’t be affected. That’s all changed with its new Terms of Service. The move is part of WhatsApp’s plan to monetize, and involves sharing phone numbers and analytical […]

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Digital Identity Digest (August 21 – 27)

Digital Identity Digest (August 21 – 27)

By bryan short on August 28, 2016 | Tagged with Digital identity, Digital Identity Digest, digital tattoo, privacy

New Facebook application for teens presents privacy concerns Facebook released a new video sharing application called Lifestage this week that is intended for users under the age of 21. The social media company has been losing market share to ephemeral applications like Snapchat, and has been looking for ways to engage the young users who favour its […]

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Blackboard Connect: Exposed (Part 4)

Blackboard Connect: Exposed (Part 4)

By bryan short on August 17, 2016 | Tagged with Connect, Connect series, Digital identity, digital tattoo, learning analytics

As I continue waiting for the return of my data from UBC’s Office of Counsel, I’ve begun examining the structure of the Connect system. For a Learning Management System, Connect effectively manages the amount of information that students can learn from it. The system is divided into three roles: that of the student, who creates the majority […]

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