Digital freedom

Cypherpunks: Pioneers of online privacy

Concepts like encryption, digital currencies, and other privacy tools are accepted as a mainstream part of the internet today, but it’s taken an offbeat movement for these technologies to get to whe...

Taking an exam? First, install surveillance software

As Covid-19 spread and schools across North America and Europe were forced to pivot to remote instruction and examination methods, a key concern remained unanswered. How would administrators ensure ac...

Can we govern Big Tech on a global scale?

We frequently hear about regulatory shifts for Big Tech in the U.S. and the EU, and what that might mean for some of the world’s biggest companies and individual privacy. But recently, a small group...

Tests, shots, apps: The invasive new world of travel

Amid still-high numbers of Covid-19 cases in some countries and uneven vaccination rollouts around the world, talk about travel and upcoming summer getaways has started to hit fever pitch. The UK is m...

Q&A with surveillance critic Albert Fox Cahn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqb8eTsmHDs Albert Fox Cahn is founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a non-profit organization that aims to ensure...

Big Tech censoring you? Try a distributed social network

In January 2021, Poland proposed a law requiring social-media companies to restore any posts that the platforms had deleted, as long as the posts weren’t unlawful. This came days after several of fo...

What does Big Tech know about you? Find out

By now, we’re all aware that Big Tech companies not only provide services like social media and internet searches, but they also obsessively track your data for big profits.  So what exactly do big...

It’s hard to overstate just how much the pandemic has shaped the way we lived, worked, studied, and traveled. As we pass the one-year mark since the WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, an...

What is a digital footprint and how can I manage it?

Think no one’s watching you browse the web? Think again. Every click, search, and social media post leaves behind a digital footprint—a trail of data that companies, advertisers, and even cybercri...

All in your head: Creating a Bitcoin ‘brainwallet’ with Diceware

One way to store Bitcoin is in your head. You do this by remembering a list of words—a method called brainwallet. The words need to be random and secure, which can be achieved using Diceware. In suc...