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Digital Security Workshop recap: Protecting Yourself Online

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Suraj

As if you needed another reason to protect your personal information, President Trump in April signed a law allowing internet companies to sell your browsing history to whoever they want. The new law scraps a Federal Communications Commission rule that … Continue reading →

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Bystander Intervention Workshop equips participants to help targets of bullying, bias

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Thomas Nephew

What do you do when you see someone being hassled or worse because of their identity or views? On Thursday evening, December 15, an audience of about eighty people attended a workshop led by MCCRC activist Kit Bonson at the … Continue reading →

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Citizen lobbying tips, or “How to Get Your Congressman to Wake Up and Pay Attention!”

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Thomas Nephew

Long time MCCRC supporter Bill Day has just shared a great list of citizen lobbying tips on his blog at daylawpractice.com, titled “How to Get Your Congressman to Wake Up and Pay Attention!” Bill’s experience and expertise comes both from … Continue reading →

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Now that was an EPIC crypto-party

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Thomas Nephew

Better late than never: here’s a report back from the “crypto party” hosted by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Public Citizen on Friday, October 25th in the offices of Public Citizen in connection with the “Stop Watching Us”rally against … Continue reading →

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MD financial consumer privacy bill supported – meanwhile, do it yourself!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Thomas Nephew

A week ago I was in Annapolis to testify on behalf of a simple bill that’s so good it’s already helped me — and it’s not even a law yet.  That’s because “even” people like myself, Mr. So-Called Privacy Advocate, … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Thomas Nephew

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,600 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Email Pt. 1 (S/MIME)

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Bill Day

Using encryption for correspondence in America is older than the country and as American as apple pie, so much so that Thomas Jefferson even invented an encryption device during the Revolution and later used it for dispatches while he was … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: WiFi

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Bill Day

Coffee houses have a historical caché as the place where revolutions are born, but today they are also one of the easiest places for the authorities or others to eavesdrop on your electronic communications. Broadband wireless, or WiFi, is not … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Passwords

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Bill Day

In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith finally comes undone and betrays the person about whom he cares most when he is confronted with the thing of which he is most afraid. No matter how otherwise secure an encryption algorithm is, … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Browser Security

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Bill Day

The Revolution Will Be Facebooked It might seem hard to believe that Ben Ali’s Tunisian dictatorship tried to nip the Arab Spring in the bud by stealing Facebook passwords. Yet as the revolution spread by message and image on the … Continue reading →

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