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  1. Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Eckersley and Toner talk more about the coalition between tracker and ad-blocker companies that will respect a 'Do Not Track' policy.
  2. Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
  3. Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing - a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software
  4. Email privacy
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Email privacy is the broad topic dealing with issues of unauthorized access and inspection of electronic mail. This unauthorized access can happen while an email is in transit, as well as when it is stored on email servers or on a user computer. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, whether email can be equated with letters and get legal protection from all forms of eavesdropping comes under question because of the very nature of email. This is especially important as more and more communication occurs via email compared to postal mail.
  5. The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
    Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  6. Fifteen minutes of online anonymity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Making sure that your communications and data are confidential is not easy. Jean-Marc Manach, a journalist specialized in digital privacy and security, has an interesting alternative – how to have 15 minutes of online anonymity.
  7. Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.
  8. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
  9. How can you protect yourself from online snooping?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data.
  10. How to Leak to The Intercept
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Leaking can serve the public interest, fueling revelatory and important journalism. Here are instructions for how to leak safely.
  11. Improve your privacy and security on the Internet using Tor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This user manual contains information about how to download Tor, how to use it, and what to do if Tor is unable to connect to the network
  12. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.
  13. Journalist Security Guide
    Covering the news in a dangerous and changing world

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    This guide details what journalists need to know in a new and changing world. It is aimed at local and international journalists of varied levels of experience.
  14. New, Free Certificate Authority to Dramatically Increase Encrypted Internet Traffic
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is helping to launch a new non-profit organization that aims to dramatically increase secure Internet browsing. Let's Encrypt is scheduled to offer free server certificates beginning in summer 2015.
  15. NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
  16. The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
    Snowden's Latest

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
  17. Online Ad Company Adopts New 'Do Not Track' Standard for Web Browsing
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Adzerk Joins Coalition Delivering Stronger Privacy and a Way Forward in the Ad Blocking Impasse
  18. Online Survival Kit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled over the coming months in order to provide everyone with the means to resist censors, governments or interests groups that want to courntrol news and information and gag dissenting voices. The Reporters Without Borders Digital Survival Kit is available in French, English, Arabic, Russian et Chinese. Published under the Creative Commons licence, its content is meant to be used freely and circulated widely.
  19. Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
  20. Privacy for the other five billion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Aadhaar is but one example of the development sector's growing fascination with technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens
  21. Sending encrypted emails using Thunderbird and PGP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    There are easy ways to ensure your Internet activities remain confidential.
  22. Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm.
  23. Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
  24. Stop Sneaky Online Tracking with EFF's Privacy Badger
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission. See https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
  25. Tails: The amnesic Incognito Live System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Tails is an operating system like Windows or Mac OS, but one specially designed to preserve your anonymity and privacy.
  26. Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
  27. Test Your Online Privacy Protection with EFF's Panopticlick
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping you analyze the privacy protections in your Web browser. New Feature Analyzes Your Web Browser and Add-Ons for Successful Tracker Block
  28. Tor (anonymity network)
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication. The name is an acronym derived from the original software project name The Onion Router. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than six thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user.
  29. Tor is for Everyone
    Why You Should Use Tor

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    EFF recently kicked off their second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. This is great news, but how does it affect you? To understand that, we have to dig into what Tor actually is, and what people can do to support it.
  30. The use of encryption tools and the protection of anonymity online as safeguards for freedom of the press
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2015
    David Kaye is the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression. In his latest report, he stressed that governments are obligated to protect encryption tools and guarantee the anonymity and privacy of users so as to safeguard the right to freedom of expression online.
  31. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This technology allows the creation of an Internet tunnel (a virtual link) between two physical networks in different locations in a way that is transparent for users.
  32. Will Full Encryption Sideline Google's Targeted Ads?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business—and of many other online firms. But what if that data dries up at the source?

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