Notices by Tactical Tech ✅ (info_activism@mastodon.cc)

Your health data should be just yours. 💜✨
Some period apps track more than your cycle—calls, messages, even location. Who else gets access?
🔍 Find out: https://theglassroom.org/en/capsule-2-0/exhibits/intimate-data/

🔐From big tech companies to political groups, many actors are interested in collecting your data for various purposes, ranging from influencing your buying decisions to swaying your vote in the next election. Protect your data with our Data Detox Kit: https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home

🤖AI boosts efficiency but also deepens inequalities & threatens democracy. What power does AI give to its owners & investors? How do we ensure transparency & fairness? Our Executive Director, Marek Tuszynski, explores these urgent questions.
🔗Read more: https://tacticaltech.org/news/insights/hello-ai-insight/

🔍 Fact-check before you sip! 🍸
Try The Sage Source, a cocktail for sharp thinking in the AI era. Stay skeptical, verify before sharing, and trust reliable sources.
🍹 Want the full Data Detox Bar experience? Contact: partnership@tacticaltech.org🔗 More info: https://tacticaltech.org/data-detox-bar-experience/

💻 How Big Tech Became Digital Empires
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft have expanded their power by acquiring businesses, not just innovating. They control data, storage & processing, shaping our digital world.
🔗 Learn more: https://gafam.theglassroom.org/en/

🌿 Reset your digital habits 🧘♀️📵
Are you present, or just scrolling? The Data Detox Spa activation helps people reclaim focus & improve their digital well-being.
Help your audiences start your digital mindfulness journey today! 💡💻
📩 Learn more: https://tacticaltech.org/data-detox-bar-experience/
For event proposals: partnership@tacticaltech.org

🚀 Tactical Tech at #ShapingTomorrow 📰✨
Today, our team joined the Future of European Journalism conference by Publix & European Press Prize, facilitating discussions on investigative & collaborative journalism.
🔍 Our "Tech is a Personal Matter" exhibition explored:📌 How misinformation spreads📌 Digital tech & personal data📌 Deepfake impacts
Lear more: https://exposingtheinvisible.org/

With #WomensDay approaching, it is key to raise awareness of how non-consensual dissemination of intimate images (NCII), a serious form of digital gender-based violence, harms women, LGBTQIA+ communities, & other groups. #8M2025

📲 Learn more: https://datadetoxkit.org/en/ai/ncii/

🤖 Chatbots of the dead: “We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again?”

Essay by Amy Kurzweil and Daniel Story: https://aeon.co/essays/are-chatbots-of-the-dead-a-brilliant-idea-or-a-terrible-one

🚀Join our In The Loop newsletter community - outside the algorithm! With trust in social media declining, we need to rethink where we want to have important conversations. Sign up to stay ahead with insights on tech & society, open calls, events & more.
📩https://tacticaltech.org/newsletter-subscription/in-the-loop/

🏆🎉Our The Glass Room: Misinformation Edition has won the Voices Award for Media Literacy in "Empowering Citizens' Engagement and Participation"! This exhibition that sparks global conversations on misinformation has reached 115K+ people.

🔗Wanna host it? https://tacticaltech.org/the-glass-room-exhibition/

[Impact story alert] How can creative storytelling support peacebuilding? 🇨🇴✨

Caceroliando partnered with Tactical Tech to build Colombian activists’s capacity to explore new formats from podcasts to investigative storytelling, 🔍🎙️

Read more: https://tacticaltech.org/news/stories/partners-impact-story-caceroleando-1/

💘BE MY VALENTINE! WANT TO ACCEPT THE CONDITIONS?

Love, tech & algorithms? These resources explore the impact on our data and privacy.
📱Dating Brokers: https://datadating.tacticaltech.org/
❤️🔥Who's the Third Wheel in Your Dating Life? https://datadetoxkit.org/en/privacy/dating/
💕Data & Dating Who, Else Wants Your Love? https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/20-data-dating/

🛡️ Almost everything we do online relies on the 'big five' tech giants. With shifting political agendas & rising surveillance risks, choosing the right tools is more crucial than ever. 🔗Here’s Tactical Tech’s criteria for making smart choices: https://tacticaltech.org/news/insights/persistent-problems-of-digital-resilience/

Have you read our latest article for @globalvoices Voices on how AI can be weaponized for harassment? 🚨 From non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) to steps for protection, we explore the issue and how to get help. 🛡️ Read here: https://globalvoices.org/2024/12/26/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-weaponized-for-harassment/

🔊 Calling all the European-based media makers & small to mid-size newsrooms! Apply to join this 2-day event in Berlin to discuss how journalists can confront media bias in an era of AI-driven news. Organised by Display Europe & Hostwriter.

🎉 Tactical Tech team will be speaking at the event!

▶️ Apply by 20 Nov: https://forms.gle/2yc3WHqNBKB1nip78

🚨[New article] We live in a polycrisis where climate change, instability & conflict fuel fears. In this piece, Tactical Tech's Executive Director Marek Tuszynski explores how the digital world often deepens confusion & manipulation & why there is a need to rethink how we engage with information during crises. 🔗 Read full article here: https://tacticaltech.org/news/insights/the-quest-to-understand-influencing-machines/

📢The Digital Investigation Residency is open for applications! If you’re a Europe-based journalist, fact-checker, or investigator, don’t miss this event focused on AI, critical climates & political influence. Financial support available!💰Apply by Aug 30: https://exposingtheinvisible.org/en/news/call-investigation-institute-2024

🌟Join us today! Registration is open until 14 CEST (9:00 Brazil Time).
🇧🇷 Brazil's elections and democracy are influenced by digital tactics, tech firms & social media platforms, increasing misinformation spread and divisive messaging. Join the conversation in PT & EN about trends in digital influence tactics being used, accountability, and the motivations of citizens using these tools: https://lime.ttc.io/index.php/344533?lang=en

🚨Cambridge Analytica's website resurfaced in 2023, but something was off. Using #OSINT tools, we found that an obscure Japanese medication company took it over & reused it to gain clicks & drive traffic to their page.
➡️Explore this case study & learn tools to investigate compromised websites.🕵️♂️ https://influenceindustry.org/en/explorer/case-studies/investigating-compromised-websites/