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DFEY: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth
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So you're young, good looking and available? What's a person like yourself supposed to do then? One evening you get a text off your friend asking if you fancy going out; you jump onto Facebook to see who else is going, chat with a few people on MSN then get on the phone to your friend to sort out what's happening. You decide you're going to meet your friend, order an indian from the usual take away and book a taxi. Then you go out, get into the taxi and go to the cinema. After the film you get back and jump straight on Facebook raving about how great the film was and go to bed.
The information you've just given out:
- When your friend sent you a text - the time, date, locations and telephone numbers of both you and your friend were recorded on a database; the same when you called them back.
- Details of you browsing Facebook and using MSN will have been recorded and made accessible to the Government by your internet provider and more detailed information is kept over by the websites themselves. Facebook may even claim ownership of your content.
- The indian take away and taxi firm now have more information about the journeys you take and the meals you eat; your phone company also knows you've used these services.
- If you've paid for any of it with a card then your bank knows exactly what you've been doing and where you've been doing it.
- You've just told the advertisers on Facebook what you like to do.
This is why Digital Freedom matters; it's everything you do and it's recording exactly what you're doing whilst you're doing it. Support DFEY in the education and freedom of youth society today.
- Join the mailing list and find out how you can help
- Edit the wiki and keep it up to date with the latest threats to your digital freedom
- Hang out in the #dfey IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
- Come to one of our meetings; or if you don't live in the North West, how about setting up your own regional DFEY group?
Find out more About DFEY.
Most people pronounce "DFEY" as /də'feɪ/ ("duh-fay")
Contents |
[edit] Upcoming Meetings
July Meeting (London) - Agenda - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
August Meeting - Agenda - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
[edit] Past Meetings
April Meeting - Agenda - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
October Meeting - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
31st August Meeting - Notes and Recordings of the meeting
[edit] Projects
Getting free software into schools
(Suggest other things you think we should do, on the talk page)
[edit] Resources
Alternative Software List - A place to find a Free Software replacement for your applications.
About DFEY - Information about the history and philosophies of DFEY.
List of Northwest Schools and details about their computer systems
Political Resources - A place to find information about political news regarding the privacy and freedom of young people in the UK.
Why DFEY - Why DFEY was setup
(Suggestions of resources you think we should have, on the talk page)
[edit] Mailing List
There are two ways of contacting us: we have a mailing list, which also has a forum interface.
[edit] Chat
There is also the chat room (#dfey irc.freenode.net).
[edit] Facebook
We also have a facebook group. Feel free to join it!
[edit] Other Groups
We have compiled a list of other groups and organisations active in the north-west of England which might be of interest to Young People interested in issues of Freedom.
