From chatbots to deepfakes, AI-generated content is becoming increasingly common online. New AI tools make it easier, faster and cheaper to generate text, images, videos, and more. In turn, the harms that have always existed online – scams, harassment, polarisation and bias – are now being “supercharged” by AI.
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This new package of engaging and easy-to-read Data Detox Kit guides delves into AI and explores how its buzz can have a big sting. By using real-world examples, familiar and non-technical language, these AI guides are filled with actionable steps that anyone can take to gain awareness of modern technologies and take control where possible.
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A new creative intervention produced by Tactical Tech and DensityDesign Lab at Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), will address how AI is impacting the ways that media and information are produced, distributed and perceived.
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”Everywhere, All the Time” is a creative and playful digital literacy intervention designed for teens. Educators can use it to promote critical conversations about technology, AI, and their impacts.
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Introducing Inform: A voter literacy resource center designed to empower voters, educators, facilitators, and organisations involved in voter education to explore the ways digital and data-driven technologies play a key role in political campaigns and elections.
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Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines educator scoping sessions, research, literature review and youth input sessions, Tactical Tech identified insights and recommendations about topics, formats and facilitation methodologies crucial to creating effective Digital and Media Literacy Educational resources.
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This commissioned research report includes the main findings and recommendations regarding the latest developments in the Digital and Media Literacy Education field.
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A new guide and visual gallery from the Inside the Influence Industry project, looking at the global business of using data to sway voters.
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Our What The Future Wants exhibition and digital and media literacy resources for young people are now available in 15 different languages. To date, the What the Future Wants events have engaged more than 11.500 participants in 30 countries.
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The Digital You initiative is a collaboration between Goethe-Institut Kinshasa and Tactical Tech, that invites young people in Sub-Saharan African countries to think critically about their relationship with digital technologies and how tech influences their lives.
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The outdoor exhibition by Tactical Tech, co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, explores through the lens of technology how people get informed, make decisions and respond to current global crises like climate change, pandemics or political polarisation.
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Through the nine sessions of the Digital Security Training Program, experts, who co-wrote the course, will provide you with skills, tools and best practices in the field. The Digital Enquirer Kit is an e-learning course that guides learners on how to prevent the spread of misinformation, available on digitalenquirer.org and atingi.org. The course covers topics including media literacy, verification, and how to navigate the internet safely.
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What are the persuasive design and 'dark patterns' that keep us hooked to our phones? The Unboxing Tech Toolkit, developed by the Pranava Institute alongside young people in India, is a youth workbook about how technology can tune our behavior, emotions and attention, and importantly, what can be done about it.
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The first two modules of our Digital Enquirer Kit, tackling the theme of misinformation, are now available on the free Atingi platform, with more modules and translations coming soon. Sign up now!
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The 'Technologies of Hope & Fear' project received an Honorary Mention in the frame of the Prix Ars Electronica. This interactive research looks at a curated selection of 100 technologies developed in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Our Voter’s Guide explains how personal data is collected and used by political parties and candidates – and what voters can do about it. The seven tips are now available in both English and Dutch.
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As elections become increasingly data-intensive, our personal data is becoming a political asset for campaigns to leverage. This new animation, in English and Dutch, explains how this process happens - and what we can do about it.
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Learn how to identify, record and represent the images of an event by mastering the basics of visual evidence collection in this new chapter from Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.
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Stay digitally, physically and psychologically safe and aware of potential risks by adopting some basic good practices and tools to keep your human sources, yourself and your evidence protected in this new chapter of Exposing the Invisible: The Kit.
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Social media platforms can bring us closer - but they also use algorithms to separate us. Find out how 'filter bubbles' are created, and how you can burst yours, in this article from the Data Detox Kit.
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How much screen time is too much for children of different ages? This article from the Data Detox Kit provides essential advice for parents as part of the new 'Youth and Families' section.
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The latest of over a dozen country studies from our Data & Politics team, carried out in collaboration with partners around the world, looks at the role of personal data in Dutch politics.
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The Organiser’s Activity Book is a new self-learning resource from Tactical Tech’s Data and Activism project. The book is a collection of playful exercises for organisers within civil society who work with the personal data of human rights defenders, investigators, campaigners, and others who are taking part in social or political action.
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Knowing how to spot health misinformation and stop it spreading can be just as important for your own wellbeing, and for those around you, as washing your hands. These new tips from the Data Detox Kit will help boost your immunity to coronavirus hoaxes!
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Data Detox x Youth is an activity book to help young people take control of their tech. This interactive toolkit encourages young people to think about different aspects of their digital lives, from their social media profiles to their passwords, with simple activities for reflection and play.
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From Exposing the Invisible - The Kit: Get started with basic know-how about researching companies by understanding essential concepts and practices used in the ‘corporate world’, accessing useful resources to help you map business ownership and connections, and seeing how others investigate obscure business activities around the world.
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From Exposing the Invisible - The Kit: Two investigators trace their process of creating the project ad.watch, an open-research-style investigation into political advertising on Facebook. This case study follows the project’s evolution from a limited endeavour to a growing resource that facilitates investigations on political ads around the world.
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As the world goes online amid the coronavirus pandemic, it is no surprise that politics is moving online too. Tactical Tech’s Data and Politics Team have identified five digital campaigning trends that we’re likely to see more of in the coming weeks and months.
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From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: How to investigate or aid your investigation by exploring visual signs or symbols, especially in cases where very little direct information is visible, available or accessible.
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From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: As you step into the offline world, see what it takes to plan, run and evaluate your field investigation safely and effectively.
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From Exposing the Invisible The Kit: Start building your own contacts, learn how to develop, interact with and maintain sources and how to enrich your investigations with their cooperation.
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From Exposing the Invisible the Kit: Gain the techniques, skills and good practices you need to safely identify, interview and maintain contact with people during your investigations in order to gather and strengthen evidence.
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In 2020, Tactical Tech will embark on a new initiative that will seek to empower young people, aged 10-18, with the skills and critical thinking they need to shape their digital futures. Put simply, children and teenagers, should have a say in what their future looks like, and as we’ve seen with the burgeoning youth environmental movement, they are ready to take matters into their own hands.
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This paper looks at shrinking civic space in terms of the digital, in particular the role that digital technologies can have on restricting the spaces of civil society organisations and their activities.
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A new Data Detox article looking at the tools you can use to verify information online.
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Whether you’ve gotten your new smartphone second-hand or purchased a new one, you’ve just welcomed a new device into your electronic family. As you would with any other valuable device like a computer or smart appliance, it’s not just about taking care of the outside, but making sure its insides are equipped to handle your information. The new step-by-step Data Detox guide will help you cultivate your new phone to help protect you.
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A holistic and feminist perspective on privacy and digital security trainings.
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Tinder, Grindr, Happn, OkCupid, Match, eHarmony... there are so many dating services out there. This Data Detox Bonus will introduce you to the third wheel in your dating life and give you tips on how to share less and keep more secrets.
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The Kit is a self-learning toolkit for investigation techniques. It's the starting point for curious minded people who want to start uncovering the evidence and information around them.
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In this chapter from Exposing the Invisible - The Kit, Wael Eskandar and Brad Murray explain ways to find and retrieve historical and ‘lost’ information from websites, to serve as evidence that something existed online, and ways to archive and preserve your own copies of webpages for future reference.
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In this chapter from Exposing the Invisible - The Kit, Alison Killing explains how to use maps, geographic data and satellite imagery to find and visualise information for investigation.
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An investigation by artist Joana Moll and Tactical Tech into the data industry surrounding dating profiles.
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There has been a lot of resources written on safer use of digital technologies and social media platforms for CSOs, grassroots groups, activists and politically-active individuals. Here we present a curated list of resources, a pool of links that can help you respond to existing risks and threats.
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Our location reveals a wealth of information about us, not only about where we happen to be but also about what we are interested in, how we spend our time and what we value. This article explains what it is and how it's being used.
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One of 14 country studies looking at how data is used in political processes. This report, published in partnership with Elonnai Hickok, looks at the use of digital platforms and technologies in Indian elections.
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At every stage, travelling means giving away an immense amount of data that is either required by governments or by companies that provide travel-related services, or that can be automatically generated in the background. This article gives insight into the data you give away when travelling.
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Caroline Sinders explains how machine learning is already changing product design and software and how this might impact ethics and the agency of humans.
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Kate J. Sim examines how the prevailing cultural notion of sexual assault survivors as liars, and the widely held belief of technological objectivity, converge to instruct the design of anti-rape technologies.
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The GDPR compliance explained with a last-minute checklist for civil society organisations and grassroot groups to help you check that you are handling data according to the GDPR requirements.
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When you tweet your opinion about Brexit or Trump, you probably don't expect the content of your tweet to become part of an analysis of public opinion on the topic. This article explains the emerging field of digital listening and how it assess the feeling of individual potential voters and the overall public mood.
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Weaponised design is a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system. This article takes a look at how it can be faciliated by designers who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical.
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An essay exploring the concept of technofixes - the use of data and technology to solve social, environmental and political problems.
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This article examines a few moments related to the history of homosexuality and its categorisation. It starts with recent facial recognition algorithms to distinguish straight and gay faces and ends with Alan Turing’s questions about gender and The Imitation Game.
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Lost in the Small Print highlights relevant information that's usually hidden in the privacy policies of the apps and services we use everyday.
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Visualising Information for Advocacy is a book about how advocates and activists use visual elements in their campaigns. Download the 170-page book with over 60 examples of visual information campaigns from around the world. Available in English, Spanish and Arabic.
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A website made in collaboration with the participants of the Gender and Technology Institutes to showcase activities, how-tos, storytelling and tutorials.
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The Trainer's Manual is the counterpart to the Holistic Security Strategy Manual for Human Rights Defenders. It reflects on further learnings and best practices grown out of Tactical Tech's engagements with experts and trainers on the overall protection, digital security, and psychosocial well-being for human rights defenders between 2013 and 2015.
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Whether you are trying to clean your data, spot patterns, or create a data visualisation, there are many free tools available online. This resource helps you find the one that's best suited to you.
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This manual is a community-built resource for women and trans activists, human rights defenders and technologists to help them work safely online and off. It is designed to be a living, growing collection of practical guidance, built out of the Gender and Technology Institutes.
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A recommended collection of open-source tools, apps and services for better privacy and control, plus a selection of guides, tutorials, and videos to help you better understand and manage your digital traces.
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An interactive resource which aims to increase transparency about the online data industry by illustrating who tracks us when we browse the internet.
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A guide on how to clean, explore and understand your data, based on two courses created for The School of Data.
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One of the 10 Security In-a-box Tactics Guides, explaining what malware and phishing attacks are, the different types, and how to prevent them on your device.
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