Your data matters

This episode is for you.

To celebrate privacy awareness week, the podcast hosts Leena Abba from the Nigerian Data Protection Bureau and we delve into why your data matters and some personal security measures you can take to ensure that you protect yourself whilst being an active participant in the digital economy.

For Today’s episode, our recommended privacy tool is Backlight- https://themarkup.org/series/blacklight

Backlight is a privacy inspection tool which allows you to scan any website find out the specific tracking technology being used on the site. This means you know who is getting your data eveytime you visit a website. it tells you if there are any advertisement trackers (Trackers that advertisers use to gather information to serve you more targeted advertisers), if there are any cookies that will evade your browsers cookie blockers, if there are any keylogging tracker (trackers that capture any texts you type into the page before you submit an online form) among other things. Basically, this tool will help you minimise your digital footprint by forewarning you…as they say to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Try this with some of your popular websites and share your results with us across our social media platforms.