Privacy Online
Privacy is dead
Questions?
Privacy Online
Disclaimer
But ask!
About that first slide...
What is it?
Forget simplistic split private/public
Information Consent
Decide who knows what about you
Nothing to hide?
http://crackedlabs.org/en/data-against-people
Sell you things when you feel down
Make you feel down to sell you more things
Voter manipulation
No one [...] has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say
Threat Modelling
What do you want to hide from whom?
Sex Workers
Political Activists
LGBT+ people in certain countries
FUCK CHECHNYA
Victims of domestic abuse
For the purposes of this talk: pissed about surveillance
Adversaries
Ad networks & online tracking
Google (not just the search engine)
Social Media
Dating sites/apps
Many mobile apps
A 2015 study of popular apps [ A 2015 study of popular apps [...] found that between 85% and 95% of free apps and even 60% of paid apps connect to third parties that collect personal data
Data Brokers
Advice & Tips
Install Ghostery
Pay for services online (eg. e-mail)
Don’t use free VPNs!
Close social media accounts
Use different e-mail addresses (to signup to different social media)
Avoid “smart”-anything
Never install apps with too many permissions
Avoid ad-supported apps
Never give your data away for discounts
Use the Tor Browser
The Tor Browser
Sort of a better VPN
VPN whatever.com VPN You
Tor 1 2 3 whatever.com Tor You
“Impossible” to track which sites you visit
“Impossible” for a site to track who visited it (unless you login)
Blocks some ad tracking
Questions?
Links
How pervasive surveillance is: “Do Not Track” documentary I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets Verizon and AT&T accused of selling your phone number and location to almost anyone What can be guessed about you: Why social media likes say more than you might think (10min TED talk) The Power of Big Data and Psychographics How Companies Use Personal Data Against People What can be done with your data: 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone's Location With Mobile Ads Privacy abuses: Get your loved ones off Facebook Google admits its new smart speaker was eavesdropping on users On the Equifax Data Breach Handling of private data in the future: The Moral Economy of Tech (and, in general, talks by Maciej Cegłowski) Privacy Guide: Surveillance Self-Defense Guide by the Electronic Frontier Foundation