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* [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/mystery-planes-in-the-skies-above-baltimore/392627/ police and drone use in Baltimore] | * [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/mystery-planes-in-the-skies-above-baltimore/392627/ police and drone use in Baltimore] | ||
* [[Media:UN_Report_on_Encryption_as_right.odt| U.N. Report on Encryption as a right.]] "... [T]he present report examines two linked questions. First, do the rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression protect secure online communication, specifically by encryption or anonymity? And, second, assuming an affirmative answer, to what extent may Governments, in accordance with human rights law, impose restrictions on encryption and anonymity?" | * [[Media:UN_Report_on_Encryption_as_right.odt| U.N. Report on Encryption as a right.]] "... [T]he present report examines two linked questions. First, do the rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression protect secure online communication, specifically by encryption or anonymity? And, second, assuming an affirmative answer, to what extent may Governments, in accordance with human rights law, impose restrictions on encryption and anonymity?" | ||
* [http://www.wired.com/2015/07/googles-ad-system-become-big-control/ CMU study supports that Google cannot police abuse of its ad system, resulting in violation of privacy] | |||
Revision as of 23:16, 8 July 2015
The privacy group meets once monthly (location tba).
Questions To Answer
general place to put largish, privacy-related questions
- How much can a person at various levels of authority access of email sent from/to a University of Arizona email account? The rumor is that a lot can be accessed by a lot of people.
Calendar
please add any interesting events you find out about to this by editing PrivacyGroupEvents. You can {{#ask:Has event::+Has event start::+
| ?Has event start=start | ?Has event=summary | format=icalendar | title=testEvents | searchlabel=Export for iCalendar
}} to get these events into other calendars.
{{#ask: has group::Events|limit=100|format=eventcalendar|?has date|?has title|?has group}}
Tools help
browser tools
- RequestPolicy (By Justin Samuel and Beichuan Zhang, of University of Arizona!)
- NoScript (I prefer the version without trackers lists -- latest I have is 2.6.9.x)
- PrivacyBadger (EFF)
- Self-Destructing Cookies
- HTTPS Everywhere (EFF)
various
- you broke the internet, we'll build a gnu one
- EPIC privacy-related tools
- PrivacyPal, Automated Privacy Policy Parsing
- RAPPOR for privacy-preserving stats
- Surveillance Self Defense (EFF)
- installing the latest GPG
Additional Sources
why care about privacy?
giving up privacy
- Americans say they want privacy, but act as if they don't
- The End of Privacy on NPR
- Atlantic article on an Arizona man whose anti-privacy views lead him to share everything, including passwords to email, banks, etc.
- Londoners give up their first born in agreeing to privacy policy
how universities can help
- boingboing on online privacy and libraries
- NSF "Dear Collegue" letter on privacy-related research
- list of Tor exit nodes. Search 'university' to see all the universities hosting
miscellaneous
- ProtectionOfHumanSubjects
- Ai Weiwei, Privacy, and the future of surveillance
- Privacy Bibliography
- police and drone use in Baltimore
- U.N. Report on Encryption as a right. "... [T]he present report examines two linked questions. First, do the rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression protect secure online communication, specifically by encryption or anonymity? And, second, assuming an affirmative answer, to what extent may Governments, in accordance with human rights law, impose restrictions on encryption and anonymity?"
- CMU study supports that Google cannot police abuse of its ad system, resulting in violation of privacy