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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.

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Location Privacy: How Protected Are We?

Public Lab is developing a set of tools based on "location blurring," a new system that would mitigate the abuse of big tech surveillance.

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Restore Privacy Guide: Alternatives to Google Products

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.

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PrivacySpy

PrivacySpy is an open project to grade and monitor privacy policies for convenience and accountability.

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To Really Protect Our Privacy, Let’s Put Some Numbers on It

Tracy Ann Kosa, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, discusses how and why we need to measure data privacy.

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Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge

"Researchers, companies, and governments holding data face a fundamental tension between risk to respondents and benefits to science."

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Obscure Me: A Toolbox for Online Privacy

Privacy and security online matter. This toolbox from the Global Public Policy Institute provides a starting point to protect them.

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Privacy Preserving Techniques Handbook

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.

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Privacy Patterns

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.

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Unsure about Data Privacy? These 4 Podcasts Will Help

Despite their strong capacity-building infrastructure, US nonprofits are still susceptible to data breaches, cyber attacks, and otherwise well-intentioned misuse of data.

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