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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/16/19: Privacy Tools 2019

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Let’s take a look at some of the privacy tools listed on the www.chooseprivacyeveryday.org web site. Look under Resources on the home page, then under Tools to Protect Privacy. We’ll look at four on that list today: HTTPS Everywhere, Ghostery, Disconnect.me, and Privacy Badger. They can help us to maintain at least a little more personal privacy as we move around the web, and give those who wish to track us everywhere minor conniptions.

 

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 4/11/19

Internet Big Picture

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

So how is the Internet faring these days, especially from the perspective of what we thought the Internet would become 20+ years ago? Here are some visions from then and now. See what you think.

Here are the works mentioned in this program:

John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. 1996, www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Lawrence Lessig: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, 1999.

Bruce Schneier: Click Here to Kill Everybody, 2018.

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