Opinion | It’s Time to Panic About Privacy (Published 2019)

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services

These days, it seems like everyone's out to violate your privacy. But even if you care about privacy, you probably don't want to leave the internet fo

Privacy is a collective concern

When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

This Review summarizes and draws connections between diverse streams of empirical research on privacy behavior. We use three themes to connect insights from social and behavioral sciences: people's uncertainty about the consequences of privacy-related behaviors and their own preferences over those consequences; the context-dependence of people's concern, or lack thereof, about privacy; and the degree to which privacy concerns are malleable—manipulable by commercial and governmental interests. Organizing our discussion by these themes, we offer observations concerning the role of public policy in the protection of privacy in the information age.

“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?”

This is why.

6 really practical ways to protect your privacy online - Amnesty International

216K subscribers in the privacytoolsIO community. As announced on July 27th, and on Sept 14th, 2021, The Team Formerly Known As PrivacyTools.io – the…

Measuring the Privacy Experience

How do you know that a product respects your privacy – other than by wading through the fine print? We’ve created a framework to measure the way people actually experience privacy in tech products.

You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public

When we spend time fighting the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not

Privacy Principles

Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both.

Privacy Principles

Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both.

Privacy Fundamentalism

The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world.

Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant

The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don't see the problem...

Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant

The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don't see the problem...

Differential Privacy | Harvard University Privacy Tools Project

Please see below for further information about differential privacy and our group's work. To get involved, please email privacytools-info@seas.harvard.edu and see our calls for summer interns, students, postdocs and visiting scholars.

Why Meta is retreating from encryption

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore