You are the product. The digital age has brought us many conveniences with the very real cost of our privacy as payment. The terms and conditions that none of us read have allowed companies to build a persona of who we are, and possibly better than we even know ourselves. Learn what your privacy looks like today, and take very real steps toward reclaiming the anonymity that allows you to move through the world without being constantly sold.
7. WHAT THIS TALK WILL COVER
> Why privacy?
> How privacy is dying
> Steps to reclaim your privacy
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8. WHY CARE ABOUT PRIVACY?
> Security
> Limit on Power
> Reputation Management
> Freedom of Expression
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9. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
1948
> Article 12 - No one shall be subjected to arbitrary
interference with his privacy, family, home or
correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and
reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of
the law against such interference or attacks.
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10. 4TH AMENDMENT TO US CONSTITUTION
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no
Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized."
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12. "Arguing that you don’t care
about the right to privacy
because you have nothing to hide
is no different than saying you
don’t care about free speech
because you have nothing to say."
— Edward Snowden
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14. 16.7 MILLION
VICTIMS IN
201714 — [Source: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-identity-theft-and-cybercrime]
15. $17 BILLION
IN LOSSES15 — [Source: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-identity-theft-and-cybercrime]
16. 1.3 MILLION
CHILDREN
IDENTITIES STOLEN16 — source: Robert Chapell Jr., 30-year law-enforcement veteran and author of the book "Child Identity Theft: What Every Parent Needs to Know."
38. Five Tier is a company using bluetooth beacons, wifi
sniffers and aggregate data that it sells to advertisers
for more "targeted ads"
38 — Source: [https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/digital-billboards-are-tracking-you-and-they-want-you-to-see-their-ads/]
39. > Has downloaded billions of images from social media
> Uses it seemingly for law enforcement purposes
> Claims will never sell to rogue state
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40. "SMART" SPEAKERS
> Amazon, Google and Apple all send recordings to human
reviewers unless you opt out
40 — [Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47893082]
41. "If you give me six lines written by
the hand of the most honest of
men, I will find something in them
which will hang him."
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
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43. The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in
court papers: The nation's telecom companies are an arm
of the government – at least when it comes to secret
spying.
43 — [Source: https://www.wired.com/2009/10/att-doj-foia/
44. EnStream is a joint venture with major Canadian telcos
provides "identity verification and authentication
services.".
> Provides to 3rd party companies
> Charges companies a fee to provide a user's location.
> Users must opt-in but no clear way of doing so.
44 — [Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/rogers-bell-telus-enstream-location-data-sharing-securus-1.4666739]
45. MESSAGING AND VOICE
Use Signal. Something with E2E encryption
Viable Alternatives: WhatsApp, Telegram, Messages on iOS
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48. WHAT IS TOR GOOD FOR?
> Anonymity
> Living in dictatorship
> journalist in oppressive country
> Whistleblower (Snowden)
> Hacker
> Illegal activity
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50. > Based in British Virgin Islands
> OpenVPN (with TCP/UDP), SSTP, L2TP/IPSec, and PPTP
> 3,000 remote servers in 160 locations and 94 countries
> Buy with Crypto
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51. > Based in Panama
> OpenVPN
> Retains no logs at all
> Buy with Crypto
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52. CHOOSE A BETTER BROWSER
> Brave
> Tor
> Firefox Quantum
> Safari
Not Chrome
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67. "Privacy is rarely lost in one fell
swoop. It is usually eroded over
time, little bits dissolving almost
imperceptibly until we finally
begin to notice how much is gone."
— - Daniel J. Solove
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