References and Resources
Most of us are eager for more information about data privacy but we don’t know where to find it. This is a collection of resources we find valuable and we hope you find helpful. If you would like to be referenced on our page, please contact us.
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New York Times Privacy Project
A series of articles created and managed by the New York Times to explore ideas like “Does Privacy Matter?”, “What Do They Know, and How Do They Know It?”, “What Should Be Done About This?” and “What Can I Do”.
This is an infographic provided for free by Enterprivacy which helps explain the ‘squishiness’ of privacy. At first glance it can be confusing but once you study it, it makes so much sense. It is broken into four areas and you should look at them in this order: 1. Information Collection (green box) 2. Information Processing (purple box) 3. Information Dissemination (red box) and 4. Invasion (blue box). Contact us for more help understanding it.
Categories of Personal Information
This is an infographic provided for free by Enterprivacy which puts personal data types into categories. We hear all the time that “It doesn’t matter, all my personal data is gone anyway.” When you look at this, you will start to understand why that really isn’t true. Contact us for more help understanding it.
International Association of Privacy Professionals
IAPP is the world’s largest information privacy organization supporting privacy professionals around the world. They offer lots free resources but for the full value of their services you must become a member. Here is an example of one of their free resources which is helpful to the community.
If you are confused by the dizzying number of US privacy regulations, this will help make sense of the chaos. They have both a chart and a color-by-number map.
FPF is a nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.
You might have heard about “anonymous data” or “pseudonymous data”, this graphic breaks down the different types of ways we can de-identify data.
Teach Privacy with Danial J. Solove
Dan Solove is a pioneer is privacy and data protection with 100’s of resources and training materials and a great newsletter.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. They champion user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. They work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems — a way to translate "privacy-by-design" into practical advice for software engineering. We believe design patterns can help document common practices and standardize terminology. We are building a living, community space where all can contribute their own patterns.
These strategies help IT architects to support privacy by design early in the software development life cycle, during concept development and analysis. The following eight privacy design strategies are explained: minimize, hide, separate, aggregate, inform, control, enforce, and demonstrate. The strategies also provide a useful classification of privacy design patterns and the underlying privacy enhancing technologies. Author Jaap-Henk Hoepman.
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to do. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness about this activity.
Create Privacy Notices that meet the requirements of the European Union GDPR. Generates ready to use, fully customizable HTML code you can add to any website in just minutes!
Demonstrates that the combination of just gender, birth date, and zip code can likely uniquely identify 87% of the population in the US.
PET - Privacy Enhancing or Enabling Technologies
PrivacyCheq - privacy notices that you can understand. Looks like a nutrition label.
Cookiebot - Cookiebot helps make your use of cookies and online tracking compliant
The Great Hack Trailer
A Netflix original movie that explains what happened with the Cambridge Analytical scandal.
Powered by National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to bring awareness to all people regarding how to keep their personal data safe and secure. Every year they champion a Data Privacy Day on January 28 in honor of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data.
Password Requirements
Stanford University put out a great infographic to simplify password creation. This is really helpful to share with your users.