Estee Beck

Last Updated: 5/25/14

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Resources for Privacy and Surveillance Online
This handout accompanies Estee Becks 2014 Computers & Writing talk, Shaping our Online Spaces: Persuasive
Computer Algorithms and the Invisible Digital Identity.
The resources listed below are not exhaustive or endorsements, but are intended to help aid in research and
teaching about privacy and surveillance online. If you find resources to add to this list, please email me at
esteenbeck@gmail.com
This list is available on my website, www.esteebeck.com
Super resource (has much more than this list): http://prism-break.org/en/
EDUCATIONAL
American Civil Liberties Union, Surveillance & Privacy:
https://www.aclu.org/time-rein-surveillance-state-0
Browser Fingerprinting:
https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/8159/browsers-fingerprint-reduce/
Electronic Frontier FoundationSurveillance Self-Defense:
https://ssd.eff.org/
Electronic Frontier FoundationTeaching Copyright:
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/
What is Online Behavioral Advertising:
http://www.truste.com/consumer-privacy/about-oba/
Surveillance Studies Network:
http://www.surveillance-studies.net/?page_id=5
SCHOLARLY
Surveillance & Society journal:
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/
Bibliography of Surveillance/Privacy (Broadly Conceived) of Rhetoric & Composition sources:
http://www.esteebeck.com/privacy-online.html
DATA ANALYTI CS
Want to see what marketing firms have on you? You can also opt-out from their collection practices.
About Ads: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Acxioms https://aboutthedata.com/
BlueKais http://bluekai.com/registry/
Opt-out of Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Estee Beck
Last Updated: 5/25/14
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CLOUD DATA
Own Cloud: http://owncloud.org/
COOKI ES & OTHER TRACKERS
Educational
All about cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Ghostrys Know your Elements: http://www.knowyourelements.com/
Cookie cleaners
Piriform: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
BleachBit: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
I NSTANT MESSAGI NG
Crypto Cat: https://crypto.cat/
Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/
I NTERNET ANONYMI ZERS & VI RTUAL PRI VATE NETWORKS
Tails: https://tails.boum.org/
Tor: https://www.torproject.org/
Cyberghost VPN: https://cyberghostvpn.com/
Private Internet Access: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
Tor VPN: https://torvpn.com/information.html
MOBI LE PRI VACY
Silent Circle: https://silentcircle.com/web/home/
Wickr: https://www.mywickr.com/en/index.php
Whisper Systems: https://whispersystems.org/
PASSWORD STORAGE/VAULTS
LastPass: https://lastpass.com/
Password Safe: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Estee Beck
Last Updated: 5/25/14
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SEARCH ENGI NES
DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com
Gibiru: http://gibiru.com/
Ixquick: https://www.ixquick.com
SECURE EMAI L
Countermail: http://countermail.com
Hushmail: https://www.hushmail.com
NeoMailbox: https://www.neomailbox.net
Riseup: https://riseup.net/en
WEB BROWSER AD-ONS
Ad Block Edge:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
Disconnect:
https://disconnect.me/disconnect
HTTPS Everywhere:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
JohnDoFox Addon for Firefox:
https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html
No Script:
http://noscript.net/
Self-destructing cookies:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
WEB PRI VACY
Abines Do Not Track Me: https://abine.com/index.html
EFFs Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Ghostry: https://www.ghostery.com/en/