Your Digital IDVetting, Discovering and Protecting Yourself

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” 

Gabriel Garcí a Márquez

We Feel Tracked Online

Source: USA Today

We Want to Be Forgotten

Source: Index on Censorship

Sharing Thoughts

Antoin O Lachtnain Bernie Goldbach

Issues of Convenience

We Feel Naked Online

We Want Things for Free

Smart digital practices for proper online engagement.

Why educators care about digital identity.

To Vet. To Discover. To Protect.

Thinking about Digital Identity.

To Vet YourselfUsing Egosurfing

Egosurfing can be an alerting tool for reputation management.

Egosurfing•By given name•By nick name•By online nic• Images•News•Videos•Maps• Scholar

Egosurfing Nickname

Egosurfing Given Name

Egosurfing Topgold Text

Egosurfing Topgold Images

Egosurfing Given Name Images

Egosurfing News

Egosurfing Videos

Egosurfing Maps

Egosurfing Books

Egosurfing Google Scholar

Egosurfing Patents

To Discover Yourself

Using Software Agents and Workflow

Facebook and Discovery

Use Google Alerts

Follow Your Mentions

To Protect Yourself

Using Techniques, Technology and Best Practise

Omnipresent Web Bugs

Hard to Escape Google

Your Browsing History

You generate a history of clicking links, reading, viewing and listening.

Your App History

Apps can share information about your usage patterns.

Collaborative Sharing

Evolving Technology Changes Sharing

Old Skool Access

Cloud Access

Image: Forbes.com

OneDrive Cloud Access

OneDrive Sharing

Google Privacy Settings

Foremost Techniques

Stay offline when working with sensitive material.

Your Phone Leaks

You trade privacy for convenience.

Tracked by your phone.

Governments know your movements.

Foremost Techniques

Be careful when sharing.

Encrypt Chats

Know How to Encrypt

EOTS Techniques

You can employ active avoidance tactics.

Stealth Wear Styling

Stealth Ware Clothing

Stealth Ware Glasses

Advice from DigitalRights.ie

Advice: General Strategy• Be aware of what you share.• Assume everything you say online is public.• Decide on your public degree of open use.• Define private content.• Take active steps to encrypt private data.• Ensure your loved ones know your private keys.

Advice: Tactics• Audit personal privacy settings on every major

release.• Review online identity through egosurfing and alerts.• Know how to turn off location trackers.• Generate PGP keys.

Recommended Reading

Glenn Greenwald Bruce Schneier

Highly Recommended

Recommended Subscription

Recommended Listening

Listening to @documentally

Resources• Janet Burns on Alternet.org, April 21, 2015• Digital Rights Ireland• Electronic Frontier Foundation• Bernie Goldbach @topgold on good social networks• GPG Tools and GPG4WIN for Public Keys• Antoin O Lachtnain @antoin DigitalRights.ie• Christian Payne on Documentally.com, May 31, 2015• Robert Scoble’s 22 Rules for Facebook• Bruce Schneier podcast

Now Go Forth and Be Private