The start of the year is when I review my online privacy practices and identify steps to improve cybersecurity of my accounts and online habits.
Which is good timing: January is when dozens of articles and news stories are published about privacy and how to avoid scams as well as information about annual Data Privacy Week events.
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When our Metro Detroit WordPress group was looking at video conference applications for our virtual meetups, we had dozens of options to choose from. Two deciding factors for us: Finding a free service that worked across desktop and mobile operating systems Finding a service that prioritized privacy. Limiting the search to free services reduced the… Continue reading Shop Smart: Learn About Privacy of Products That Connect to the Internet
In their MozFest 2022 Defeating Deceptive Design: Getting Control of Our Online Lives online session, Ame Elliott of Simply Secure, Carlos Iglesias from the World Wide Web Foundation, and Kaushalya Gupta of the World Wide Web Foundation shared initial research findings from their Tech Policy Design Lab on deceptive design.
The presentation was short, followed by interactive sessions in breakout rooms to discuss deceptive design, barriers to change, and brainstorm methods for addressing deceptive design.
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