This weeks episode features the Jas Schembri & Jo Goodall, the founders of Luna, a digital health companion for teens. In this episode we discuss what kind of misinformation teens are faced with on mainstream social media and how Luna tackles this.

@_maria.bettina is joined by Elena Michael, co-founder of #notyourporn. In this weeks episode they discuss what exactly the Online Safety Act is with a particular focus on how this will change legislation around IBSA. They dive into the positives of the act as well as the negatives, looking at what future legislation needs to be put in place in order to protect survivors and potential victims of IBSA.

In this weeks episode Maria is joined by Carmen Raal, a digital transformation advisor at e-Estonia.

They discuss the history of Estonia and how this pushed the country into becoming the most digital society in the world. They cover everything from the interesting technology behind the country, to how they educate their population to be technologically advanced, as well as how to safely store data in ´Digital Embassay´s´.

In this weeks episode @_maria.bettina is joined by John Ozbay. John is the founder of Cryptee, is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted service to write personal documents, notes, journals, and store photos, videos and more. 

John & Maria discuss what exactly encryption is, differentiating between its different forms and how it can benefit specific groups in society from simple storage of personal photos, to helping journalists document harsh truths of war & authoritarian societies. In addition, they discuss the controversial encryption debate. This debate centres around whether or not encryption should be ´weakened´ in order to scan for illegal contents or if it should remain encrypted for privacy reasons.

For the first episode of the Digital Shadows podcast is an introduction to the space of online safety and internet regulation. Maria is joined by Caroline Humer, a trust & safety expert. They discuss the history behind the trust & safety industry, why it exists, how it works, and how companies can play a vital role in keeping the internet safe.

In addition, they discuss a magnitude of topics from incoming internet regulations, digital rights, human moderation and even the challenges that social media and adult companies face when it comes to online safety.

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