3. Privacy and tracking online

Let's think about what we do when we are participating digitally. Here are two common issues about online privacy that you might want to consider.


Listening and tracking
Is Facebook listening to us?



The image above comes from an article from 2016 If you search this question you will find more recent and varied responses to this question. Snopes (the popular fact-checking site) reports this as "mostly false" but clearly there are enough other privacy concerns concerning Facebook that this is a question people keep coming back to.
Is Google tracking me?

The chances are if you use google maps and have location sharing enabled that Google is tracking your movements. To see if Google is capturing your location history go to Google maps, open the menu and select "my Timeline".