Event Recap & Resources: Managing your Digital Footprint

On Monday night OpenCUNY Coordinators hosted an event on Managing your Digital Footprint. At the event we discussed the recent data leak with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, did a quick recap on “How the Internet Works” to demonstrate when and where we generate data while browsing, and introduced several tools (listed below) to help identify and block third-party cookies and trackers.

After introducing the tools and getting a few up and running on attendees personal computers, a lively and thought-provoking discussion ensued and covered topics ranging from the need for increased digital literacy, to feelings a loss of agency in protecting one’s personal data, and we also explored the notion of “privacy” as a personal desire vs. social necessity/norm.

You can look through the topics and tools covered at the event in the slides and find links in list below. Several slides contain excerpts and quotes that both complicated and illuminated our notion of privacy and guided our approach to the event.On the last slides and listed below you will also find additional readings on data a privacy that we found particularly helping or insightful (espeically the book Blown to Bits).

If you have any questions about the event or about the topics covered, feel free to email the OpenCUNY coordinators @ info@opencuny.org

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