by Julia Bernd | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Project News, Resources/How-Tos, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
To help CS teachers tie privacy concepts more closely to traditional CS curriculum content — i.e. programming — the Teaching Privacy team created three new programming exercises to add to our Teaching Privacy/TROPE curriculum: Mapping Geotagged Tweets:...
by Florin Langer | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control
Oakland police officers’ likes, follows, and comments implicated them in a sexual misconduct investigation. Some had strong privacy settings but some didn’t, and investigators seem to have pieced together their roles through the profiles of those that didn’t. Some of...
by Julia Bernd | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Sharing Releases Control
Our advice about online sharing generally has two sides: If you share something online (at all), assume that it could be exposed to a much larger audience than you originally intend. If someone else shares something with you that you want to reshare, ask them first....
by Julia Bernd | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, There's No Anonymity
Social media may be the first thing most people think of when the subject of online privacy comes up, but online games are another major way your privacy can be compromised. Check out the TouchArcade article here: Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play...
by Julia Bernd | May 23, 2016 | Apps/Tools, Blog, Privacy Requires Work, Resources/How-Tos, Someone Could Listen
The Free Software Foundation recently released a set of tools and guides on email encryption: Email Self-Defense Site For those who are concerned about protecting their email against any possible eavesdropping (including government surveillance), FSF provides some...
by Julia Bernd | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Online Is Real, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
This happened a couple months ago: An acquaintance (we’ll call him Egbert) who was estranged from his wife (we’ll call her Namaa) became drunkenly angry about her refusal to communicate with him, and began talking at length about how he was going to kill her. Not just...
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