Living in a pandemic, our sanitary behavior had to adapt these past two years: sanitizing our hands multiple times per day, waring masks and keeping our distance. We integrated these routines for our hygiene to protect ourselves and others and applied this to our immediate surrounding. In consequence of the distance, we increased the usage of our screens around us.

But do we ever keep our digital self clean? What could be digital hygiene (short, digigène)? How can we cleanse our digital aura? Explore with us the role of data and what it tells about our lives, why it is worth so much money, the principle of data economy and why data is political.

In the first part of the workshop we will discuss different aspects of digital privacy. We will take a look at the daily things of today's connected life, from search engines to messenger apps to email traffic, and look at who collects what data, where, how and for what purpose. In the second part of the workshop we will playfully explore how mobile phones track our position and use the Geneva as our drawing canvas.

Starting time: 14:00 and 15:30 at the île de Rousseau, Geneva

Inspired by the publication «Eine Kurze Anleitung zur Digitalen Selbstverteidigung», published by the Digitale Gesellschaft and the WOZ, we will look at the most used digital tools and technologies and how they affect our privacy. We will discuss the following points:

• The principle of data economy ("Datensparsamkeit")
• Why data is worth so much money
• What data tells about our lives
• Why data is political

• Web Browsers: Firefox, Brave, and Tor
• VPN's
• Search Engines: Startpage, DuckDuckGo
• Messengers: Threema, Signal
• Social Networks: Mastodon, Gnu Social, Ello, WT Social
• Emails: Posteo (D), Kolab Now (CH), Tutanota (D)
• Email Software: Thunderbird
• Maps: Open Street Map, Map Geo Admin
• Internet Service Providers
• Hosting

In the second part we will look at the application bigfestival.maxfrischknecht.ch and will use it to experience geo location tracking trough a playful way and use Geneva as our canvas.