Consumers

Privacy and Travel

• Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices by Seth Schoen, Marcia Hofman and Rowan Reynolds, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Dec. 2011)
• 10 Travel Tips for Protecting Your Privacy by Fran Maier, Truste (Aug. 2011)
• Traveling? 10 Tips to Protect Your Laptop from Theft from Microsoft
• Wifi Hacking and Identity Theft Rise on the Road: How to Protect Yourself When You Travel from private I, Jan. 6, 2011
• EPIC’s Air Travel Privacy

Mobile Phones and Privacy

• Privacy Now TV’s "How to Secure Your Smartphone" video offers tips and advice
• “Your Apps Are Watching You,” an investigative report from the Wall Street Journal found popular iPhone and Android apps are collecting and transmitting information without users' awareness or consent. The Net Safety Tips OnThe Go app for Android phones  makes it easy to keep up with online privacy, safety, and security issues. This app provides quick, practical, friendly advice for you and your family -- one tip at a time.
• Learn more about mobile privacy with this tip sheet from Data Privacy Day and Stay Safe Online.
• Do you use your smartphone to take photos?  Learn how to disable the geotagging feature on your phone  at icanstalku.com.
• Learn how to remove location information from mobile images by following these steps from MobileActive.org.
• Black Hat DC software engineer Nicolas Seriot wrote a white paper on the iPhone and Apple App Store privacy flaws. The paper contains recommendations for Apple, consumers and professionals. You can learn more about the white paper in this Cnet article. 

Privacy and the Cloud

Cisco’s blog “Cloud Security for Everyone” addresses primary privacy and security concerns and actions you, as a consumer, can take to address them.  For example, when you connect to cloud services via wireless in a public place, someone might be monitoring and intercepting the network traffic. You have the same risks at home – someone might break into your home wireless networks.  As such, secure your access to the cloud by using VPN connections, encrypted web traffic (https/SSL), and secure wireless access.

Social Media

• Think before you post and watch an entertaining Data Protection Day PSA from the European Commission.
• How to Update Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Oct. 2011
• 5 Ways to Control Your Facebook Privacy, Oct. 2011
• 20 Facebook Privacy Settings Tips, a tutorial by Joe Cassels for techradar.com, Feb. 2011

Protecting Privacy When Wireless

Microsoft ‘s 4 Safety Tips for Protecting Privacy when Using Wireless in Public

Cisco’s Tips to Secure Your Network and Protect Your Privacy:  While networking makes it easy to share internet access and data, you don’t want to share your information with just anyone. With a wireless network, your information is traveling through the airwaves, not physical wires, so anyone within range can "listen in" on your network. Cisco outlines the five essential security measures you should take to secure your wireless network and protect your privacy here.

Cookies and Behavioral Tracking

• What are cookies and how do they work? Watch this This instructional video about cookies created by the Wall Street Journal.
• Supercookie Code Seen on Hundreds of Sites, Wall Street Journal, August 2011  
• Web Tracking has become a Privacy Timebomb, USA Today, August 2011
• What You Can do about the New Web Tracking Tools, WSJ August 2011
• A Privacy Bill of Rights? How you are tracked online and what is the government trying to do to keep you safe?
• The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) offers consumers factual information about online behavioral advertising, privacy, cookies, and how the system works, guidance on managing your privacy, and the ability to opt out of behavioral advertising delivered by NAI’s member companies.

Health Privacy

• Personal Health Records and the HIPAA Privacy Rule by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights
• HHS Unveils PHR Privacy Notice, September 2011
• Center for Democracy & Technology on Health Privacy
• Medical Records Privacy from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• HIPAAT (Health Information Protection and Associated Technologies), offers “Protecting the Privacy of Your Personal Health Information” as a resource for consumers concerned about privacy in the context of electronic health records.  HIPAAT provides consent management and auditing solutions to healthcare.  HIPAAT’s web-based software balances patient information privacy with clinicians’ need to access protected health information (PHI).  The software allows organizations such as hospitals, clinics, insurance companies and pharmacies – organizations that electronically share PHI – to implement, enforce and audit consumer privacy policies, improving quality of care.  For more information, visit www.hipaat.com.

Identity Theft

• In Fighting Back Against Identity Theft, the Federal Trade Commission offers information, to deter, detect and defend against identity theft for consumers and businesses.
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse offers Identity Theft: What to do if it happens to you.

General Resources on a Variety of Privacy Topics

• Google offers Good to Know, a privacy and security guide about your data on the web, on Google and  how to manage your data.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation offers excellent resource site regarding online privacy.
• The Center for Democracy & Technology would like your help with the Not Without a Warrant campaign, which calls for the updating of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.  To learn more about the ECPA and how it affects your privacy, visit CDT’s Security & Surveillance page.
• Edudemic posted The Ultimate Guide to Online Privacy, which offers a collection of information and resources that advance privacy and security online.
• Keep Your Information Safe has advice cards, cartoons, and stories from The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand.
• The Penn Corner: Your Update from the FTC, is a new monthly email that highlights the work the FTC is doing to protect consumers and offers resources to help protect against fraud.
• The Privacy Professor’s Tip of the Month by Rebecca Herold offers free monthly privacy awareness tips to keep up with privacy issues year round.  
• Six Ways Your Online Privacy Is at Risk, by David Lavenda for Fast Company’s FC Expert Blog (Feb. 4, 2011), gives people a brief summary of privacy risks.
• The Interactive Advertising Bureau offers PrivacyMatters.com: The Truth About Data Privacy, a destination where consumers can learn about online advertising;  how their privacy is protected, ways to protect themselves  and tips for understanding and managing cookies.
• Acxiom offers a Protecting Your Privacy in the Information Age: What every consumer should know about the use of individual information booklet, which answers questions about the collection and use of personal information online and provides information about identity theft, security breach, telemarketing, spam and online tracking.
• Gemalto Inc.’s informational site for consumers www.justaskgemalto.com: Practical Answers for Your Digital Life has frequently asked questions about privacy and security.  IDGuardian offers news, information and opinions from industry leaders, experienced journalists, and consumer advocates to help consumers manage their identities online.
• Cisco Systems, Inc. offers Online Privacy: Protecting You and Your Family
• Procter & Gamble offers Your Privacy: Stay in Control of Your Personal Information, including a number of educational articles about personally identifiable information, sensitive information, cookies, social networking, and other privacy topics.
• Royal Bank of Canada’s “Make Your Day Safer” videos have easy-to-follow tips to help you protect your personal information.
• Procter & Gamble offers Your Privacy, featuring tips and resources to help you protect your personal information.  Visit What is Privacy?and Take Control to learn more.
• Privacy Now TVand Privacy Now Radio offer frequent informative videos and shows  aboutconsumer privacy issues.
• PrivacyRevolution.org’s Video Gallery has a number of videos about privacy with speakers including: Jeffrey Rosen, Beth Givens of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, author Cory Doctorow, EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, NYU Professor Clay Shirky, and more.
• The Google Privacy Channel on You Tube offers a number of short informative videos on privacy issues including: interest-based advertising; use of privacy settings in Google Latitude; advertising privacy; and how to protect your privacy on Google Chrome.