1. Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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. Complaints filed against telecom companies for their role in UK mass surveillance programme
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
3. Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
4. Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
5. 'Hostile to privacy': Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
6. 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
7. No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
8. NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
9. The NSA's Invasion of Google and Yahoo Servers
   Your Email is Likely Being Monitored
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
10. Online Survival Kit
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
11. An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
12. Preparing for a Digital 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
13. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
14. 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
    First Published: 2009   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.
15. Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
16. Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.

Experts on Online-Privatsph„re in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks