The Cyber Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint

We all know data about our personal lives is plucked, gleaned, and pocketed every day from our technological lives. Refraining from phone use, using Facebook only for Marketplace, limiting time on Instagram: these are all healthy habits, but they don’t address the way our digital footprint leaks information about us and supports corporations doing unsavory thing. The Opt Out Project has created a day-by-day cleanse to help us “live a modern, digitally connected, twenty-first century life online without Big Tech.”

Your action:

• Check your schedule and choose a 21-day span in which you’re mostly likely to focus on daily cleansing tasks. Widen it to 42 days to be realistic. Or host a party and do a whole bunch at once.

• Call in some friends to do the cleanse with you, for a built-in support and motivation network.

• Follow the daily prompts for the 21-day Cyber Cleanse.

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