by Julia Bernd | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Project News, Resources/How-Tos
Each year, high-school students in the Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology (BFOIT) enrichment program participate in internships at ICSI and UC Berkeley. Last August, interns Alexis Conway and Isha Doshi worked with the Teaching Privacy...
by Julia Bernd | Dec 11, 2014 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, You Can't Escape, You're Leaving Footprints
Amid concerns about potential use of excessive force by police (focused most recently on the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner), police departments are being encouraged by the U.S. Department of Justice to equip officers with small body-mounted cameras. Some...
by Julia Bernd | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control, You're Leaving Footprints
What can a computer figure out about a human? Not just where you are and how you spend your money, but what kind of person you are. One intriguing study last year showed correlations between what people Liked on Facebook and various demographic factors, personal...
by Julia Bernd | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog, Identity Isn't Guaranteed, Online Is Real, There's No Anonymity
Facebook’s “real name” policy has been in the news recently due to a rash of account suspensions and threatened deletions where the account-holders are transgender and using their chosen rather than their legal names — apparently the result of...
by Julia Bernd | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Resources/How-Tos, Someone Could Listen
Every year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes a report on major Internet sites and services called “Who Has Your Back”, along with a handy chart summarizing how each company or service deals with government requests for their users’...
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