Open The Box
The short videos help one understand the ways your personal data is used on the ‘other side’ of the screen. Animations and interactive apps demystify digital processes, showing you what social media platforms and websites can infer about you. Interactive apps help you learn how deepfakes are made and how to spot misinformation online. The visualisations explore the growing dependency on technology. Dig deeper into your digital life with these series of visual stories.
‘Fake news’ is more than just false information. Even the term ‘fake news’ is misleading, because in many cases it contains some ‘real’ content – a...
Today's image-editing software makes it easy to create disinformation by editing, cropping and miscaptioning images, which then spread rapidly acro...
The most common model used for psychometric profiling is the OCEAN model, also called the "Big Five" or the "Five Factor Model", named for the five...
This poster looks into the most common design tricks used in technology, posing the question: Who is responsible for the way we interact with techn...
In Deepfake Lab, researchers take you behind the scenes to reveal how deepfake technology works, the process of how a deepfake is created, and how ...
This visualisation explains how AI-generated synthetic images, text and video have the power to change what we say, what we do and how we look, and...
Have you ever wondered how much time you spend on your mobile phone? For most of us, our mobile phones are with us nearly all the time: either in o...
We are becoming increasingly attached to our phones. In fact, an average smartphone user spends about 3 hours per day on their device. This visuali...
This poster looks at what goes on behind your 'selfie', delving into the world of facial recognition technologies, and the points of your face that...
Outside in the sun everyone has a shadow... and in the digital world everyone has a shadow, too. This animation looks at the different ways your "d...
During Tactical Tech’s research into the Influence Industry, we found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties in...
The algorithms that control the devices that make up the Internet of Things - in our homes and our cities - need to be trained to ‘understand‘ us. ...
When you join a dating website or download a dating app, you volunteer information about yourself in hopes of finding a good match. But all these i...
If you use a smartphone, you have on online profile. Do you have one or many? Are you in control of your profile? Is it based on information you ar...
Whenever you browse a website, someone is looking over your shoulder. Almost every site visit is tracked by a third-party that shares and sometimes...
Our personal data is being used for political purposes, and it has become a political asset, a means for political intelligence, and an instrument ...
‘Algorithm’ is a buzzword that is used to explain everything from big data to machine learning. This animation unpicks why we should care about alg...
