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. Authorities turn their sights on microblogging
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a new crackdown in China on social-networking tools, especially microblogging services.
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. Complaints filed against telecom companies for their role in UK mass surveillance programme
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   On 5 November 2013, Privacy International filed formal complaints with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the UK against some of the world's leading telecommunication companies, for providing assistance to British spy agency GCHQ in the mass interception of internet and telephone traffic passing through undersea fibre optic cables.
5. 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.
6. EU: Enact Controls on Digital Weapons Trade
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Unregulated Export of Powerful Surveillance Tools Threatens Internet Freedom. Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch call on the European Union to enact new controls on Internet surveillance and censorship technologies. Repressive governments use these technologies to enable human rights violation.
7. For journalists, danger lurking in your email
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software installs itself onto unsuspecting users' computer, it can record and relay emails, screenshots, and Skype audio conversations.
8. Forward Secrecy Brings Better Long-Term Privacy to Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Wikipedia readers and editors can now enjoy a higher level of long-term privacy, thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation's rollout last week of forward secrecy on its encrypted connections.
9. Get your head out of the clouds
   If we allow our personal data to be stored in giant electornic centres, we deserve what we get
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   Appraising the risks to personal data held in cloud computing systems.
10. Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users.
11. Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
12. Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
13. Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy.
14. 'Hostile to privacy': Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Edward Snowden has identified Dropbox and other services as 'hostile to privacy." He urges web users to abandon unencrypted communication and adjust privacy settings to prevent governments from spying on them in increasingly intrusive ways.
15. 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.
16. Hushmail
    Resource Type: Website
    Confidential email service based in Canada
17. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
    A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
18. '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.
19. No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
20. 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.
21. NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Internet specialists highlight moves by Brazil, Germany and India towards creating separate networks in order to block spying.
22. The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
    Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The American National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting information coming in and out of Google and Yahoo servers over non-public, internal network fibre optic lines. In December, 2012 alone, the program (revealingly called “MUSCULAR”) processed 181,280,466 Google and Yahoo records that included email, searches, videos and photos.
23. 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
24. 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.
25. An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
26. Preparing for a Digital 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
27. 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.
28. Protecting the Choice to Speak Anonymously Is Key to Fighting Online Harassment
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    EFF Urges Department of Education to Uphold First Amendment Rights in University Anti-Harassment Policies
29. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
30. Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net, partners against online surveillance and censorship
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net have joined forces to create and maintain 250 additional relays for the Tor network.
31. 6 Ideas For Those Needing Defensive Technology to Protect Free Speech from Authoritarian Regimes
    4 Ways the Rest of Us Can Help
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance.
32. 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.
33. 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.
    
34. 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
35. The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance: February 11, 2014
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On February 11, on the Day We Fight Back, the world will demand an end to mass surveillance in every country, by every state, regardless of boundaries or politics.
36. Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. Why anger is all the rage
    The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
41. 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?

Experts on Online Privacy in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks