The Data Detox Bar is a meeting point in exhibitions and events for visitors to take control of their data privacy, digital security, and online wellbeing. Key features of the Data Detox Bar are:

• Data Detox Bar sign on the wall
• Printed giveaways of the Data Detox Kit and other related resources
• Welcoming hosts who are ready to engage in conversations with visitors
• Stools for visitors to sit down and follow the Data Detox tips

The Data Detox Bar at The Glass Room: San Francisco, 2019; Photo by Boris Zharkov.

The Data Detox Bar invites visitors to have discussions about digital topics in an analogue space, creating a truly unique experience. Staying true to the Data Detox Kit, the Data Detox Bar also provides a variety of simple and non-judgmental tips and tricks to help visitors navigate tech more confidently.

The Data Detox Bar at Mozilla's Reclaim the Internet, 2023; Photo by Safa Ghnaim.

The Data Detox Bar is an important addition to exhibition spaces, first emerging in 2016 at The Glass Room: New York to giveaway the Data Detox Kit and to start conversations with visitors. It was then further developed at The Glass Room: London in 2017, and featured as a central meeting point in The Glass Room: San Francisco in 2019.

The Data Detox Bar at The Glass Room: New York, 2016; Photo by David Mirzoeff.

In 2021, the Data Detox Bar was redesigned as a self-guided resource wall at The Glass Room in Dresden which was hosted by the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum and at Reclaim the Internet hosted by Mozilla in Berlin in 2023.

The Data Detox Bar at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, 2022; Photo by Oliver Killig. Photo courtesy of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.

Various pop-up versions of the Data Detox Bar have emerged over the years from Norway to Sweden and beyond—inspiring visitors to rethink and shift their online behaviors.

Are you interested in hosting your own Data Detox Bar? Contact us at datadetox@tacticaltech.org for more details.