PrivacyGroup
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 of Privacy-Related Happenings
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}}
Privacy Tools help
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
tools and techniques for better privacy
- 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)
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)