Privacy –

Digital privacy focuses on the ways your personal information is used, collected, shared, and stored on your devices and while on the Internet.  Privacy is not about hiding information, it is about protecting  information.

No device knows more personal details about people than the smartphones in our pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name, a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off, are just a few of the ways that we are being tracked. The same is true of our laptops, tablets and all of our mobile devices and the digital spaces and social media platforms where you spend time.  Every move we make, every like and dislike, every click we take – all of these things are stored somewhere online.

Social media sites and companies such as Meta (aka Facebook), WeChat, Tiktok and Snapchat, just to name a few, along with the Tech Giants such as Amazon, Google, Apple and Samsung claim to have privacy and data policies that put users in control but actually are set up to maximize invasions of privacy and data surveillance.

• Who is keeping track of what we do online, and why?
• Why should you be concerned about your privacy in digital spaces?
• How can we lessen the impact of all the data we share as we go about our daily tasks and better protect ourselves when we are online?