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Don't want your home address or other personal info published to the world? This weekend, take an hour or two to make yourself a less visible target.

There's much more to the Internet than what you can stumble upon with Google. Hidden sites can market drugs and weapons illegally, but they also provide anonymity for political dissidents.

What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code -- a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.

Who is listening in on your phone calls? On a landline, it could be anyone, says privacy activist Christopher Soghoian, because surveillance backdoors are bu...

There isn’t much that we can do to stop hackers from stealing the data we entrust to companies. However, there are some easy things we can all do to significantly reduce the harm from such breaches...

Facebook is updating its Pages feature to make Facebook the default place you connect with businesses.

#facebook

The illusion of encrypted conversations is blown off once more by German scientists who reveal how a hacker can intercept your phone

#encryption #german scientists #hackers #t-mobile

Your phone's ability to pin-point your exact location gives us plenty to be excited about. But this world of always-on GPS raises new questions about what happens to our data.

When you're surveilling one person, the contents of conversations can be more important than metadata. But when you're surveilling an entire population, metadata is far more useful.

Nearly two years after Snowden's revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.

53% have not adopted or considered using a search engine that doesn’t keep track of a user’s search history and another 13% do not know about these tools.

46% have not adopted or considered using email encryption programs such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and another 31% do not know about such programs.

43% have not adopted or considered adding privacy-enhancing browser plug-ins likeDoNotTrackMe (now known as Blur) or Privacy Badger and another 31% do not know such plug-ins.

41% have not adopted or considered using proxy servers that can help them avoid surveillance and another 33% do not know about this.

40% have not adopted or considered using anonymity software such as Tor and another 39% do not know about what that is.

Couple nice and clear examples 8:08

Total Revenue V.S. AD Revenue 4:12

A list of projects which are working on online privacy issue (end of the video). Projects for protecting online privacy Protonet, DuckDuckGo... 11:15

“Because ultimately privacy is depended on each and everyone OF US. And we have to protect it now, because online data is just more than just a fraction of one’s and zero, it’s actually a lot more than that it’s our lives, our personal stories, our friends, our families and in many ways of our hopes and aspirations.

We simply can’t have a free society if we don’t protect it (online privacy) now.

We can work together to turn this vision into reality.

The opening can potentially be the intro of the thesis project.

“ The solution is to build an internet were now our privacy and ability to control our data its first and foremost , but even more importantly we have to build an internet for privacy is no longer just an option but is also the default.” -Andy Yen

#We simply can't have a free society if we don't protect it now

Work in Process

Floor plan for the exhibition section of my thesis project (see more details in the thesis website http://www.surveillanceproliferation.com/#!material-matrix/ctzx). I measured the existing space at 79 New Montgomery gallery and design a circulation route for the visitors.

*Little Do We Know - The hypothetical organization which is developed with my thesis project.

*Critical Eye - The title of the Exhibition

#floor plan #thesis

"Sometimes, you have to demo a threat to spark a solution"

Barnaby Jack, 1977-2013

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