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Know what happens to your information online.
A course on digital privacy for ordinary users. It covers how tracking and data sharing actually work, what the common tradeoffs are, and how to make informed choices without abandoning the services you rely on.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to understand what happens to my information online. Explain tracking, data sharing, and common privacy tradeoffs so I can make more informed digital choices.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- AI & technology
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What concerns you most: advertising tracking, data breaches, what companies know, or what other people can see?
- Do you want to change your habits, or mainly understand the picture?
- Which devices and services do you use most?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
Privacy settings baffle you
Every service has forty toggles and you have never touched them.
You have given up
It feels like everyone has everything already, so why bother.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06What is collected
Data you give, data that is observed, and data that is inferred about you.
How tracking works
Identifiers, cookies and the advertising system behind them.
Where it goes
Sharing, brokers and breaches, and what each one risks.
The tradeoffs
Convenience, cost and personalisation, weighed honestly.
Choices that matter
The settings and habits with the largest effect, and the ones that only feel protective.
Your own privacy posture
Deciding what you care about and acting on that, not on fear.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Explain how tracking works
Describe cookies, identifiers and data brokers in plain terms.
Weigh the tradeoffs
Judge what you get for what you give, service by service.
Make deliberate choices
Change the settings and habits that matter most to you, and leave the rest.
Ideas this course corrects
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear
Privacy is about control, not secrecy. Data collected for one purpose is routinely used for others.
It is all already out there
Some is. Future collection is still your choice, and it is where most of the risk sits.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course on digital privacy for ordinary users. It covers how tracking and data sharing actually work, what the common tradeoffs are, and how to make informed choices without abandoning the services you rely on. It sits under AI & technology in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to understand what happens to my information online. Explain tracking, data sharing, and common privacy tradeoffs so I can make more informed digital choices.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.