PRIVACY-RELATED CONTENT

• The WatchOut report
  

  An analysis of smartwatches for children by Forbrukerradet.

• #toyfail Can you trust Cayla?
  

  My Friend Cayla and i-Que fail miserably when it comes to safeguarding basic consumer rights, security, and privacy.

• Data Protection… What you need to know
  

  This short video explains the key points of data protection and how it affects us as individuals and also its relevance to the workplace

• Privacy in the Digital Age
  

  This is a short, educational video about how privacy appears in the digital age

• The Grocery Store subtitled in all EU languages

  An awarded short movie, a co-production of Safer Internet Hellas (saferinternet.gr) and art productions (artpro.gr) that highlights on the importance of critical thinking when surfing the internet.

• How connected cars could raise privacy issues
• Smart Stories Story about ePrivacy
  
• Fitness trackers, fit apps and Privacy
  
• Apps can sell your data #appfail
• Dos and Don’ts when using social networks
  

  Privacy and social media in daily usage. This video contains valuable safety tips.

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• The Kantara Iniative
   The members of Kantara Initiative take the lead to discover strategic issues at the intersection of digital identity, personal data agency and usability. For more information click here.

 

• My Data and Privacy Online research project by LSE
   This project  seeks to address questions and evidence gaps concerning children’s conception of privacy online. For more information click here.

 

• National Science Foundation Award (2019-2022)
  A NSF program that aims in the creation of explorable formal models of privacy policies and regulations. For more information click here.

 

• Alternatives to Google Products by PixelPrivacy  (https://pixelprivacy.com)
  This is a guide to protecting your data from google’s prying eyes here.

 

• The Privacy Enthusiast’s Guide to Using Android by lifehacker  (https://lifehacker.com)
  Tips and guidelines on how to change your android system settings in order to protect your privacy. To read the guide click here.

 

• Online Teen Safety Guide  (https://staysafe.org/teens/)
  This guide provides the resources necessary for both parents and their teens to safely utilize the Internet. To read the guide click here.

 

• PlusPrivacy (https://plusprivacy.com)
  PlusPrivacy provides a unified dashboard for protecting yourself from a variety of threats to your privacy. It enables the control of privacy settings in your social network accounts, hide your email identity, block ads, trackers and malware and prevent unwanted apps and browser extensions from tracking you and collecting your private data.

 

• UsablePRIVACY (https://usableprivacy.org/)
  Τhis project offers the prospect of overcoming the limitations of current natural language privacy policies without imposing new requirements on website operators.

 

• Browser Extension and Login-Leak Experiment  (https://extensions.inrialpes.fr)
  In the experiment,  your browser fingerprint will be collected, together with the browser extensions installed and a list of websites you have logged in.

 

• Apply Magic Sauce (https://applymagicsauce.com/)
  A personalisation engine that accurately predicts psychological traits from digital footprints of human behaviour by University of Cambridge.

 

• DataBait (https://databait.hwcomms.com/)
  DataBait is a tool that shows guesses and predictions about you and your personality can be derived by analyzing your digital trail with smart software. In order to give you these insights, we collect, with your permission, data from your Facebook profile and (via the browser plugin) data from your online surfing behaviour.

 

• Safeline (http://www.safeline.gr/en)
   SafeLine’s first priority is to eliminate photographic and audiovisual material that portrays ill-treatment of minors and to safeguard their right of safe online surfing. In addition, children’s harassment through the Internet or a mobile phone as well.

 

• CR Standard (http://dataselfie.it)
  Consumer Reports partners with other cyber experts, creating a new open-source industry standard to make connected devices safer. For more click here.

 

• Dataselfie (http://dataselfie.it)
   SafeLine’s first priority is to eliminate photographic and audiovisual material that portrays ill-treatment of minors and to safeguard their right of safe online surfing. In addition, children’s harassment through the Internet or a mobile phone as well.

 

• The Digital Standard (https://www.thedigitalstandard.org/)
  The Digital Standard is an ambitious, open, and collaborative effort to create a digital privacy and security standard to help guide the future design of consumer software, digital platforms and services, and Internet-connected products.

 

• My Shadow project (https://myshadow.org)
   Tactical Tech’s Me and My Shadow project helps you control your data traces, see how you’re being tracked, and learn more about the data industry. Created in 2012, the project continues to be actively developed. For more click here.

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