Online Privacy and Security Workshop - Spring 2017

This information session is about privacy and security in the realm of technology and social media and intended to provide students with tools to improve awareness of their online presence.

Commonly used social media and their privacy options

• Facebook: Manage Your Privacy
• Instagram: How do I set my photos and videos to private so that only approved followers can see them?
• Snapchat: Change your privacy settings
• Twitter: Protecting and unprotecting your Tweets

How to find out what information is publicly available about you as an individual

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Encrypted Communication Options

Tor Browser Project (Web Browser)

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

Signal Private Messenger (Text/SMS)

Privacy is possible, Signal makes it easy. Using Signal, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in real time with all your friends at once, and share media all with complete privacy. The server never has access to any of your communication and never stores any of your data.

Riseup (Encrypted Email)

• Full disk encryption
• Personally encrypted email storage
• All services are encrypted
• Riseup encrypts traffic whenever possible
• Delivery to other providers over Tor
• and more