How Digital Provenance Creates a Traceable History

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A software package can look like a single file when it reaches your computer. A photograph can appear to be a single image. A dataset can arrive as one downloadable archive. In reality, each may have passed through a chain of people, systems, transformations, and automated processes before reaching you. The difficult question is often … Read more

Signing Into a New Device: What Happens to Your Accounts and Data

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A new phone or computer can feel strangely familiar within minutes of signing in. Your email appears, contacts return, cloud files appear, apps start downloading, and settings may look surprisingly similar to those on the old device. It can seem as if the device has copied your digital life from one piece of hardware to … Read more