Personal Digital Privacy

Advice from the Federal Trade Commission on how manage online tracking (cookies), privacy settings on all networked devices, and how to protect your personal data.

The Atlantic's Guide to Privacy (multi-author, multi-resource)

Learn how to gain control over your information online with these privacy-related detoxes.

Can you spot when you’re being phished? Identifying phishing can be harder than you think. Phishing is an attempt to trick you into giving up your personal information by pretending to be someone you know. Can you tell what's fake?

Learn tips and tricks on how to protect your personal digital data through these easy to digest GIFs created by Coding Rights.

GREAT FOR FACULTY: "The Security Education Companion (SEC) is EFF’s resource for people teaching digital security to their friends and neighbors. Whether you're new to computer security concepts or you're new to teaching, there’s a place for you. SEC includes “security education 101” explainers, lesson plans, and other teaching materials." ~ EFF.org

"Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices. In addition to tutorials for installing and using security-friendly software, SSD walks you through concepts like making a security plan, the importance of strong passwords, and protecting metadata." ~ EFF.org

Step-by-step instructions on managing your smartphone data in order to protect your privacy.

By Brooke Auxier, Lee Rainie, Monica Anderson, Andrew Perrin, Madhu Kumar and Erica Turner

Learn about the different kinds of phishing attacks, what they look like, and how to keep yourself safe against them.

by Brian X. Chen

Learn about common online scams and how best to protect yourself from them.

by David Clinton, author of Keeping Up: Backgrounders to All the Big Technology Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore

Learn about the state of phishing today (including AIs role) and what you can do to protect yourself from phishing attempts.

by Adam Tanner

by Jacqueline Lipton, author of Our Data, Ourselves: A Personal Guide to Digital Privacy

Coding Rights is a feminist organization that contributes to the debates about the development, implementation and regulation of technologies from a collective, transfeminist, decolonial, and antiracist perspective of human rights. They are based in Brazil, and their website is in both English and Portuguese.

The Data Detox Kit: everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

The Federal Privacy Council will help to ensure that as Federal agencies carry out the diverse missions of the Federal Government, they do so in a manner that honors and respects the personal information entrusted to the Federal Government by the American people and other individuals. Today, the United States is in the midst of a revolution of innovation and opportunity based on the explosive growth of the digital economy and the wide-scale adoption of new technology. To keep pace with this change, the Federal Privacy Council will identify more effective and innovative ways to help protect privacy across the Government while supporting efforts to deliver better and more efficient services for the American people.

The IAPP is the largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community and resource. Founded in 2000, the IAPP is a not-for-profit organization that helps define, promote and improve the privacy profession globally.

While mostly aimed at library workers, the Library Freedom Project promotes the protection of privacy rights, education around privacy rights and freedom to information, and information democracy in libraries and beyond.

The National Cybersecurity Alliance, is an American nonprofit organization which promotes cyber security awareness and education. The NCA works with various stakeholders across government, industry, and civil society, promoting partnerships between the federal government and technology corporations.

Phishing.org is a project brought to you from KnowBe4 as a resource for IT professionals to keep you up to date on the latest phishing threats as well as a way to help better educate your users to make smarter security decisions when it comes to phishing. Here you will find free tools to use in your organization plus in depth explanations for your users about things like what phishing is, the history behind it, how it actually works and most importantly, how to avoid becoming a victim.