Trackography: Who is reading over your shoulder when you read the news online?

Year of production: 2020

Image is illustrative. Photo by Obi Onyeador on Unsplash

Trackography is an open-source project of Tactical Tech that aims to increase transparency about the online data industry by illustrating who tracks us online and where our data travels to when we access websites. In particular, Trackography shows:

– the companies that track us
– the countries which host the servers of the websites we access
– the countries which host the servers of tracking companies
– the countries which host the network infrastructure required to reach the servers of websites and tracking companies
– information about how some of the “globally prevailing tracking companies” handle our data based on their privacy policies

Authors

Technical Tech
Tactical Tech

Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society