Privacy, Surveillance, & Security

Resources

• A 70-Day Web Security Action Plan for Artists and Activists Under Siege

• Choose Privacy (American Library Association)

• Consentful Tech

• Cracked Labs

• DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity

• Doxxing and Online Harassment Prevention Tips (ACLU)

• Larson, Quincy. "Bye, Bye Privacy: Set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free-- and, yes, Americans urgently need one, thanks to Congress." qz.com, 29 March 2017.

• Library Freedom Project

• Library Privacy Checklists (LITA) 

• Privacy and Confidentiality Section (Society of American Archivists)

• Privacy Paradox

• Privacy Toolkit (American Library Association)

• Secure the News: HTTPS Encryption for News Websites

• Security Culture for Activists (Ruckus Society)

• Security Starter Pack

• Working Group on Privacy and Ethics in Technology (Digital Library Federation)

Organizations

• Crash Override Resource Center

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Lucy Parsons Labs

Podcasts & Webinars

• Privacy in the Surveillance Age: How Librarians Can Fight Back. presented by Alison Mcrina & April Glaser, gla.georgialibraries.org/events_carterette_archive.htm, 9 Dec. 2015.

Articles

• Carpenter, Zoë. “Librarians versus the NSA.” thenation.com, 6 May 2015

• Glaser, April. “Long before Snowden, Librarians Were Anti-Surveillance Heroes.” slate.com, 3 June 2015.

• Morrone, Melissa. “How Your Local Library Can Help You Resist The Surveillance State.” wagingnonviolence.org, 8 July 2014.

• NSA Spying on Americans (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

• Yoose, Becky. "The Threat Within." LDH Consulting. Blog post, November 23, 2020. (Discusses practices for minimizing "insider threat" of privacy violation of library patron data)