"ιχνιον" (ichnion) – a track, trace or footstep
Visualize your digital footprint
Through our daily activities and communications a vast digital footprint, our personal activity record data is being generated.
Have you ever looked at your digital footprint (personal information) in a specific way?
Sovereignty over our Digital Heritage
Through our daily activities and communications a vast amount of personal activity data is collected, analyzed and exploited ... surprisingly too often not for the benefit of us.
However, the digital footprint of each individual is not only a visual depiction of memories but can be used for many things. It can be put to good use, such as health and asset management, career and personal development. In addition, if shared and accumulated across society based on the individual's free will, it will be useful in preventing the spread of pandemics, improving mobility services, road safety, and supporting responses to disasters for example.
Personal data exports from web services are not readable for ordinary people. This project wants to change this and help individuals obtain the digital footprints from various service providers as comprehensively as possible based on data portability, to organize, integrate, visualize and put our data into an accessible format.
How it works
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Excavate
Many web services provide personal data exports for their users, mostly required by legal regulations.
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Sieve, sort & store
Exports usually come in non-standardized, not human-readable formats. They need to be made accessible first.
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Assemble
To uncover the true value of your personal archives the digital data needs to be processed and aggregated.
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Exhibit
Visualization empowers you to inspect your digital footprints including potential values and possible risks. And it enables you to understand what data is collected about us.
Mission - our values
Code for Myself aims to develop and provide Open Source software to help individuals obtain and manage their personal data archives.
Our goal is to make digital footprints accessible to everyone to be used wisely for ourselves, our families, our communities and society.
Privacy
Local First
Empowerment
Transparency
Human Centric
Join the project
We are looking for people from all over the world to join and collaborate on this project.
Supporter
If you are an individual, company or organization that wants to support the project.
Contact usGet in touch
Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you. You can talk to us in our Discord channel.
