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A Guest Post by Robin Wilton of the Internet Society
We are the raw material of the new economy. Data about all of us is being prospected for, mined, refined, and traded...
. . . and most of us don’t even know about it.
Every time we go online, we add to a personal digital footprint that’s interconnected across multiple service providers, and enrich massive caches of personal data that identify us, whether we have explicitly authenticated or not.
That may make you feel somewhat uneasy. It's pretty hard to manage your digital footprint if you can't even see it.
Although none of us can control everything that’s known about us online, there are steps we can take to understand and regain some level of control over our online identities, and the Internet Society has developed three interactive tutorials to help educate and inform users who would like to find out more.
We set out to answer some basic questions about personal data and privacy:
The aim of the three tutorials is to help everyone learn more about how data about us is collected and used. They also suggest things you need to look out for in order to make informed choices about what you share and when.
Each lasts about 5 minutes and will help empower all of us to not only about what we want to keep private, but also about what we want to share.
After all, if we are the raw material others are mining to make money in the information economy, don't we deserve a say in how it happens?
Find out more about the Internet Society’s work on Privacy and Identity by visiting its website.
* Robin Wilton oversees technical outreach for Identity and Privacy at the Internet Society.