Hey Tiger! Sometimes you gotta be up to be down. Sometimes you gotta flip the narrative. How can you do more by doing less? Less scrolling negative social feeds, more nourishing the mind. Less procrastination, more creative inspiration. Take a quick prowl through our curated jungle of positive news bites. They say a Tiger can’t change its stripes, but it can read between the lines.
Privacy has always been a privilege. Long wrapped up in issues of gender, race, and intersectionality, privacy is not so much a personal choice as a mediated minefield. With the EU gearing up to begin enforcement of its landmark Digital Markets Act and the US Publicly releasing the discussion draft of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act last week gives us plenty of reason for public debate on private matters.
Opting in is becoming less of an option, unless we opt out of digital life.
Enjoy the weekend prowl Tigers… watch your track marks!
privacy /ˈprɪvəsi,ˈprʌɪvəsi/
noun
a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.
Watch: "A private life makes a public life worth living." Growing up in the public eye, Byrce Dallas Howard is the celebrated actor of Jurassic Park and daughter of Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard. Bryce experienced the familiar pressure to share her life with the world on social media. But with her mother's steadfast guidance, Howard learned to set personal boundaries and savour the beauty of private moments. In this personal talk, she draws on three generations of family wisdom to outline why privacy is a privilege to be treasured.
Read: Have you read all your app privacy policies? The million-word marathon. Geoffrey A. Fowler says we should abolish reading privacy policies. A 2019 Pew survey found that only 9 per cent of Americans read them, and even Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter of the Federal Trade Commission thinks they’re broken. Most people just click “agree” to everything because they think privacy is a lost cause. Do we even know what are we giving away?
Read: Okay so you want to proactively protect your privacy? Here’s how. The New York Times has developed a very handy site called The Privacy Project. By making a few simple changes to your devices and accounts, you can maintain security against outside parties’ unwanted attempts to access your data as well as protect your privacy from those you don’t consent to sharing your information with. Getting started is easy with this guide to a few simple changes you can make to protect yourself and your information online.
Watch: Is online privacy something old people have no idea how to explain to young people? An i-SAFE Foundation study found that over half of teenagers have been cyber-bullied. Heavy use of social media can make you 13-66% more depressed and 47% of teens say they’re addicted to their phones. But, experiences on social media don't have to be negative. TikTok Aurelia Torkington offers three key tips for positive social media use, directed at young people, and entirely relevant for all ages!
Listen: Who’s watching? Privacy has long been a gendered, racial, and intersectional issue. Senior policy reporter at Vox News Rachel Cohen, digs into how the anticipated repeal of Roe v. Wade will affect broader privacy issues. Will tech platforms continue to provide the same information, in states where the procedure is outlawed? What risk does your digital footprint create, if you seek information about abortion or other reproductive health care?
Deep dive: Too boring to read, too important not to. Shoshana Wodinsky has seen her fair share of deeply shitty tech companies pulling deeply shitty stunts in attempts to profit off users personal data. Now, after years of fizzled talks and stalled negotiations on a federal data privacy bill, House and Senate committee leaders finally set aside enough of their differences to release a draft of a new bipartisan tech privacy bill this past Friday. Are we impressed with the result? Read the full 64 page draft of the bill here. Or cut to the chase on three public gripes from a privacy expert.
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