Hi, I've been meaning to point you to the relaunched Tactical Tech website *Me and My Shadow* for a while: https://www.myshadow.org/
It's a website that aims to help users understand about the traces they leave online, or rather, the traces about them that can be found online no matter whether they have an active part in creating them. I'm especially happy to see that parts of Me and My Shadow are now available in *six languages* : French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Urdu next to English. Me and My Shadow starts with a visualisation of traces called 'Trace My Shadow' https://www.myshadow.org/trace-my-shadow that helps users understand what traces are created by using a mobile phone, a computer, by using a public wifi, by using social media platforms and many other things we do online. It explains IP addresses, cookies, browser fingerprinting or MAC addresses and points to tips what you can do and some tools you can use to mitigate some of the tracking that come with all the fancy devices and websites that make our lives more fun. The *Tools & Resources* section shows you the tools in one spot https://www.myshadow.org/resources/all and the *Shadow News* section has an overview of articles relevant to privacy and tracking https://www.myshadow.org/shadow-news/all . Last but not least there's some longer posts we wrote over the years - check them out, there's also some visualisations hidden in these: https://www.myshadow.org/explore/all Unfortunately these sections only exist in English, which shows the great lack of localisation in privacy apps and tools. (And the lack of language editors for My Shadow, but maybe some day..?) Tactical Tech also produced a *set of cards* that can be printed and distributed with an introduction to topics such as 'Nothing to hide', 'Endangering others', 'Metadata' or 'Assessing the Risks' https://www.myshadow.org/me-and-my-shadow-flipcards. They include some tips for further reading and have also been translated to the languages mentioned above. All content is licensed under a *Creative Commons* license and can be used and adapted freely. If you know tools that would make a good addition to the website, if you have comments, questions or found a bug get in touch with the team: https://www.myshadow.org/contact-us or use the feedback form https://www.myshadow.org/feedback *Disclaimer*: I've worked on My Shadow for the larger part of the last two years but left Tactical Tech this summer because I couldn't resist the offer to be a researcher for the opposition in the German parliamentary inquiry on mass surveillance. (If you have any insights about activities of the Five Eyes in Germany or cooperation of German secret services: please find my GPG key or Jabber ID at the bottom of this email.) Me and My Shadow will be developed further by a new team already at work and I'm looking forward to their new ideas and projects. I know a video and another visualisation are almost ready to be published - stay tuned and keep checking for updates! If you want to access the language sections directly: *Arabic* تتبع ظلي https://www.myshadow.org/ar The Arabic cards https://www.myshadow.org/ar/%D8%A8%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%B8%D9%84%D9%8A *Russian* Следите за своей тенью https://www.myshadow.org/ru The Russian cards https://www.myshadow.org/ru/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B8-%E2%80%9C%D1%8F-%D0%B8-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B8-%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%E2%80%9D *French* Tracer mon ombre https://www.myshadow.org/fr The French cards https://www.myshadow.org/fr/flipcards-mon-ombre-et-moi *Urdu* میرے سایہ کا سراغ لگاؤ https://www.myshadow.org/ur The Urdu cards https://www.myshadow.org/ur/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%BA-%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%DA%86%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE-%D9%81%D9%84%D9%BE-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88%D8%B2 *Spanish* Rastrear Mi Sombra https://www.myshadow.org/es The Spanish cards https://www.myshadow.org/es/tarjetas-yo-y-mis-sombras Kudos to the fantastic translators who did great work! And to some amazing people who worked on the website, the administration, on copy-editing, the design and illustrations. It was great to work with all of you and I hope we'll do more projects some day in the future. Anne -- http://about.me/annalist https://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7689407F942951E2 Jabber: _an...@jabber.ccc.de -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
