The Digital Privacy Overhaul

THE DIGITAL PRIVACY OVERHAUL is a resource workbook designed to guide you through over a dozen proven methods for understanding and controlling the digital portrait that Big Tech has of you! WHAT YOU GET Direct Resources: Over one hundred links to digital privacy options built into Big Tech’s most popular platforms Curated Options: Preferred alternatives to the most commonly used apps, from companies that prioritize user control and privacy Tested Results: Easy tools, tips, and best practices to implement advanced security and limit data collection START TAKING BACK YOUR CONTROL FROM BIG TECH! The Time to Act is NOW.

What is The Social Media Detox? The Guidebook for your Digital Life. A Deep Dive, into the Way Out. Strategies to help others: --) Minimize their social media usage --) Understand, control, or delete their digital data footprints --) Let go of unnecessary services and platforms --) Develop a healthier relationship between their online and real-world life Pulled from over ten years of experience on the healthy outside of the social media phenomenon, half a decade working at two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech giants, training hundreds of clients in their wellness goals, and a Buddhist upbringing focused on meditation and mindfulness. I bring observations on a world lost to faceless suggestion software and unaccountable corporate giants. Readers will discover: --) The societal, political, and psychological implications of a world always connected, yet never truly in touch with anything or anyone --) Bite-size, actionable stepsthat will lead to better use, or discontinued use, of services and platforms that are increasingly gathering your personal information without limit Aimed at helping users, especially Gen Z, reconnect with the habits and self-ownership that will enable them to achieve Happy & Healthy in the Here & Now. Imagine a proven, incremental blueprint that empowers everyone to log off and reconnect. Let's dive in to the Disconnect together!

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice ‘slow computing’, but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Drawing on the ideas of the ‘slow movement’, Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise. Many scholars have continued to explore the big themes in a manner which typifies the complex interplay between privacy, identity, security and surveillance. This level of engagement is both welcome and timely, particularly in a climate of growing public mistrust of State surveillance activities and business predisposition to monetize information relating to the online activities of users. This volume is informed by the range of discussions currently conducted at scholarly and policy levels. The essays illustrate the value of viewing privacy concerns not only in terms of the means by which information is communicated but also in terms of the political processes that are inevitably engaged and the institutional, regulatory and cultural contexts within which meanings regarding identity and security are constituted.

What impact has the evolution and proliferation of surveillance in the digital age had on fundamental rights? This important collection offers a critical assessment from a European, transatlantic and global perspective. It tracks four key dimensions: digitalisation, privatisation, de-politicisation/de-legalisation and globalisation. It sets out the legal and policy demands that recourse to 'the digital' has imposed. Exploring the question across key sectors, it looks at privatisation through the prism of those demands on the private sector to co-operate with the state's security needs. It goes on to assess de-politicisation and de-legalisation, reflecting the fact that surveillance is often conducted in secret. Finally, it looks at applicable law in a globalised digital world. The book, with its exploration of cutting-edge issues, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of privacy in this new digital landscape.

Describes how China is in the lead in transforming finance for the digital age This book is the product of a joint research project between economists at the National School of Development, especially the affiliated Institute of Digital Finance, at Peking University and at the Brookings Institution. It investigates the impact of financial technology on job creation, income distribution, and consumer welfare in China. It also examines larger systemic issues such as monetary policy, stability of the banking sector, and international trade and payments.