April 24, 2020
Creating a New Global Standard for Privacy and Location Sharing
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
April 24, 2020
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
February 11, 2020
Public Lab is developing a set of tools based on "location blurring," a new system that would mitigate the abuse of big tech surveillance.
September 29, 2019
The June 2019 update of a guide from Restore Privacy that aims to be the most exhaustive resource available for documenting alternatives to Google products.
September 25, 2019
PrivacySpy is an open project to grade and monitor privacy policies for convenience and accountability.
May 1, 2019
Tracy Ann Kosa, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, discusses how and why we need to measure data privacy.
April 23, 2019
"Researchers, companies, and governments holding data face a fundamental tension between risk to respondents and benefits to science."
April 18, 2019
Privacy and security online matter. This toolbox from the Global Public Policy Institute provides a starting point to protect them.
April 1, 2019
In this handbook, the Big Data UN Global Working Group defines specific goals for privacy-preserving computation for public good in two salient use cases: giving national statistical offices (NSOs) access to new sources of (sensitive) Big Data; and enabling Big Data Collaborations Across Multiple NSOs.
March 6, 2019
Privacy Patterns is a beta tool that aims to provide best practice guidance on how to manage data privacy issues in the absence of sector-specific regulation.
June 30, 2018
Despite their strong capacity-building infrastructure, US nonprofits are still susceptible to data breaches, cyber attacks, and otherwise well-intentioned misuse of data.