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One for the privacy lessons even though the app has been pulled. It's not the app itself, it's the lack of realisation about what data we are sharing and what can be done with it.  It's like Miss Marples in a digital age!

Resources to help you understand your presence online and where and what might be happening to information about you.

Incredible visualisation of the power of metadata and our digital footprint / slimetrail.  Zoom in at times to see the level of detail that triangulated phone masts give for location.

Data freedom - Own & control your data.

A good set of resources on digital identity and footprints. The bits I've read / watched covered the 'how' of how you are tracked online so they explained the technology but weren't too technical.

Ladar Levison describes (see embedded video) something of why he shut his encrypted email service. Most of it is heavily alluded to because of the draconian gagging orders he is under. From a digital literacy perspective I think this is important in helping people consider the access to information that they transmit across the Internet which may be available to others, especially governmental and quasi governmental bodies.

An open source tool to make sure you know who you are talking to online. Likely to be seen as too geeky by most.

UBC page on digital identity and your online self