Digital Justice

Digital justice, liberation technology, privacy, Internet legislation

(Un)Lawful Access

Jan 31

“This project is a response to the serious threats to privacy, free speech and civil liberties raised by proposed lawful access legislation. To understand what is at stake in this invasive and costly bill, Canada’s leading privacy and surveillance experts offer their anaylsis in the hopes of stirring debate on these critical issues.”

To find out more about surveillance in Canada, check out the links below;

DIY Book Scanner

Sep 18

A presentation by Daniel Reetz from the Open Hardware Summit on the creation and evolution of the DIY Book Scanner project

Privacy, data exhaust and Collusion

Jul 28

Privacy International – Data Trail from This is Real Art on Vimeo.

Privacy International, the oldest surviving privacy advocacy group in the world, has just released their study “European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) 2010“, funded by the European Commission’s Special Programme “Fundamental Rights and Citizenship”. As part of the report’s release they commissioned this video from This Is Real Art which demonstrates how people’s data exhaust can allow them to be tracked without their knowledge.

If you would like to gain some insight into how your data exhaust is tracked, I suggest that you download Collusion, a Firefox add-on by Mozilla Labs employee Atul Varma. The add-on tracks sites you visit and their connections to advertising entities that engage in “behavioral tracking”. If you do not use Firefox, a demonstration of Collusion is available online.