[Ta3m-Seattle] A question about protecting digital privacy

[Finn Herzfeld]

One thing I wanted to throw in there, more UW related: the University of
Washington has you in their public directory, including your cellphone
number. You may wish to opt out of that "service" (somewhere in MyUW,
last I checked). But congrats on using Signal! (at least the 929 area
code number listed in the UW directory is registered for Signal)

Finn Herzfeld

On 11/20/2017 05:48 PM, Andrew Kane wrote:
> On 11/20/2017 03:06 PM, Jigna Kotecha wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm a grad student at UW, working on a project to find
>> innovations/practices/methods to protect digital privacy>
>> I'm concerned about my digital footprints from being misused for
>> marketing, stalking, abuse, doxing. And I want to take precautionary
>> measures to hide/protect my footprints. I am looking for methods that
>> are suited for people who are situationally disadvantaged, who cannot
>> totally opt out of social media and who also lack technical expertise.
> I recommend EFF's Surveillance Self Defense as a good place to start:
> https://ssd.eff.org/
>
> I also urge people to divest from Facebook, from Twitter and from
> Google. This does not mean "totally opting out" of social media, but
> withdrawing from those companies who have demonstrated a willingness to
> monetize, and in some cases weaponize, user data they should not have
> collected in the first place.
>
> I also recommend ditching software that is owned and controlled by a
> single company or entity and using freedom-preserving open-source
> software. Alternatives exist.
>
> Use of Tor Browser is a good first step that requires little effort or
> learning: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
>
> If you have money, EFF and the Tor Project need it and would put it to
> good use IMO. I am not affiliated with either project.
>
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