Privacy Resources
If you want to go down the rabbit hole, any of these resources are a great start. Warning: once you begin, you’ll realize how Topsy Turvy it really is. Take the Privacy Purge to sleep at night.
Start Here
Chilling, creepy and beyond disturbing. This trailer encapsulates what’s at stake, and it’s well worth it to watch the entire documentary.
MUST READ BOOKS
- Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Extreme Privacy: What it Takes to Disappear (5th ed. 2024) by Michael Bazzell
- American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It
- Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Veliz
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- Carless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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MUST READ ARTICLES
- Wall Street Journal: U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans’ Personal Data, U.S. Says: Commercially available data from cars, phones and web browsers rivals results from wiretaps, cyber espionage and physical surveillance
- FTC: A Look At What ISPs Know About you
- FTC: On Cars and Consumer Data:
- FTC: On Misuse of Biometric Data:
- FTC: FB - YIKES!!! And $5 billion fine
- Protecting Personal Privacy from the standpoint of the U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Consumer Reports: Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
- Tuta: All The Data Facebook Collects - And How to Stop This
- Data privacy in the age of IoT: securing connected devices in 2024
- “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J Solove
- Internet service providers are logging everything you do online
- Who Can See Your Internet Search History