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Daily Archives: November 26, 2024

Surveillance Self-Defense Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying. Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) is a guide to protecting yourself from electronic surveillance for people all over the world. Some aspects of this guide will be useful to people with very little technical knowledge, while others are aimed at an audience with considerable technical expertise and privacy/security trainers. We believe that everyone’s threat model is unique.

  • Read the BASICS to find out how online surveillance works.
  • Dive into our TOOL GUIDES for instructions to installing our pick of the best, most secure applications.
  • We have more detailed information in our FURTHER LEARNING sections.
  • If you’d like a guided tour, look for our list of common SECURITY SCENARIOS.

Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky

Nieman Lab: “The creator of Sill says “the death of the link” has had disastrous consequences for journalism, art, and the web. His free social media tool entered public beta on Friday.  The link collection tool Sill is now available to all Bluesky and Mastodon users, the app’s creator Tyler Fisher announced on Friday. If… Continue Reading

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

MIT News: “Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people’s homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate.   MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event. The method combines a generative artificial… Continue Reading

The Law of Digital Resurrection

Haneman, Victoria J., The Law of Digital Resurrection  (July 17, 2024). __ B.C. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4899324 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4899324 The digital right to be dead has yet to be recognized as an important legal right. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and nanotechnology have progressed to the point that personal data can… Continue Reading

Research Methodology: Students’ Guide

Policy Research, Institute of Legal and, Research Methodology: Students’ Guide (August 24, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4935909 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4935909 Research is a complex process that involves systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data to advance knowledge. It requires meticulous planning, methodological rigor, and critical thinking. Effective reporting of findings is essential for knowledge dissemination. Research… Continue Reading

Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp collection of 14,000 woodblock prints online

This website highlights the richness of the collection of the museums and heritage institutions of the city of Antwerp. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has an extraordinary collection of 14,000 woodblocks. 14,000 examples of true craftmanship, drawings masterly cut in wood. We are supplying this impressive collection of woodcuts in high resolution. Feel free to browse as… Continue Reading

100 Notable Books of 2024

“Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. As you browse, you can keep track of how many you’ve read or want to read. By the time you reach No. 100, you’ll have a personalized reading list to share.” [and please visit… Continue Reading