PrivacyGroup

This page is an effort to maintain an updated collection of important work on privacy.

Questions To Answer

general place to put largish, privacy-related questions

• What are the different varieties of privacy? (To be addressed soon in a meeting on Topics in Differential Privacy, see calendar).
• 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

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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)
• BetterPrivacy (removes LSO's -- supercookies -- which survive normal cleaning of cookie cache)

other tools

• installing the latest GPG
• secure SSH
  • Using gpg-agent instead of ssh-agent
• dns leak test -- Test whether you're leaking DNS information while on your VPN, and fix it

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)

Additional Sources

why care about privacy?

• File:Sidi privacy and data quality.ogv NEW
• DoNotTrack documentary
• Why privacy matters
• Maciej Ceglowski's excellent talk
• it could happen to you, congress
• MLK Jr. and the history of bulk surveillance against people of color

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
• Tor exit nodes list. Note the universities hosting! (MIT, UMich, BU, ...)

miscellaneous

• Head of FTC won't use fitbit b/c of privacy worries NEW
• Whoops, CISA included in budget bill
• List of printers that produce tracking dots
• 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
• CEO of Hacking Team interviewed on BusinessInsider