Read The New York Times series examining the landscape of internet privacy and security.
Experience a personalized interactive documentary series about privacy and the web economy.
Explore a searchable database on police surveillance tech like facial recognition, drones, license plate readers, and other devices in your community.
A 2019 documentary film about the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Install Tor Browser, Brave, Firefox, or Duck Duck Go
Review EFF’s COVID-19 and Digital Rights
Install Ghostery, Disconnect, AdBlock, or Privacy Badger
Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing.
Tech experts sound the alarm on the dangerous human impact of social networking.
2019 video about online tracking from The New York Times.
John Naughton, The Guardian, 2019
What you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy, Louise Matsakis, Wired 2019
Nellie Bowles, The New York Times, 2018
Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 2015
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics. Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, The MIT Press, 2020
Shoshana Zuboff, PublicAffairs, 2019
Laura Kurgan, Zone Books, 2013
John Gilliom and Torin Monahan, University of Chicago Press, 2012
Joy Buolamwini examines how well AI facial recognition services by IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ recognize genders.
“The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
How Not to Be Seen—a video by artist and critic Hito Steyerl—presents five lessons in invisibility.
Follower is a service created by Lauren McCarthy that provides a real life follower for day.
An art and research publication investigating the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition datasets created "in the wild."
A web browser extension that hides all the metrics on Facebook—one of many subversive addons by Ben Grosser
Seven million public images of cats on a world map visualized using data users unknowingly uploaded in their metadata.
Content moderation is not carried out by sophisticated algorithems—it is the job of thousands of anonymous humans by Eva & Franco Mattes.
Open-access peer-reviewed journal of surveillance studies
Writes and posts on the social implications of emerging technologies in the context of politics and corporate responsibility.
Harvard research center focused on the study of cyberspace
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of Data & Society
Produces research on the social implications of data-centric technologies & automation.
Research addressing future information security challenges to amplify the upside of the digital revolution.
Founded by Julia Angwin to produce data-centered journalism about technology and the people affected by it.
