Aplicativo ferramenta sinistra: transparência de dados a partir da educação digital.

Abstract

With the emergence of social media, the flow of data on the internet has reached new levels, creating a market dominated by Big Tech companies that primarily exploit data to develop more assertive commercial strategies. On the other side, there is the user, who in many cases is unaware of how their information circulates in this market, what their rights are, or how they should protect themselves. Between Big Techs and the user, there exists a knowledge gap, where large companies absorb data at a frenetic pace without regulation keeping up with the speed at which this exploitation occurs. It was in identifying this gap that the idea of Ferramenta Sinistra emerged, the focus of this work, which aims, on the one hand, to contribute to processes of digital literacy and technological appropriation. On the other hand, the work also aimed to experiment with ways of bridging current scientific production on cyber surveillance, its architects (the academic community), and the users of services provided by companies in the broad sector of the globalized economy known as Big Techs. In this sense, the efforts undertaken in this work follow the principle that resistance to the invasive procedures of monetizing individual and collective life lies in open innovation, the publicizing of scientific knowledge, and collective learning.