Propaganda

A summary of websites that communicate problems and solutions

• Why not starting by listening to people who build those surveillance system explain themselves what they do: Cambridge Analytica - The Power of Big Data and Psychographics (or how social media can be used to manipulate political elections).
• Why you should stop using facebook! (hope you already don't ;))
• Every day, a new facebook scandal, see them listed here.
• How interactions via technology are bad for social interactions.
• Brief and neat explanation on why we shouldn't think algorithms and technology are neutral.
• See a practical demo of how your browser can be tracked, and test your browser fingerprint.
• The problem with mobile phones, also available in french and many other languages.
• About digital shadows and data gathering.
• Code is law written by Lawrence Lessig in 2000 — Aussi traduit en français: Le code fait loi

Sites to have lots of general info, learn and also find alternatives

• restoreprivacy
• prism-break
• privacy tools
• privacy guides
• surveillance self-defense. — available in many languages
• raddle, a very complete documentation on why privacy is something we all care about, many references and proposition of tools

In french:

• Libère ton ordi.
• Le MOOC chatons, un parcours de formation visant à apporter un regard critique et des prises de conscience quant au web auquel les géants du numérique veulent assigner la société.
• Le wiki d'herminien, un site créé par un enthousiaste qui explique bien les problèmes liés à la technologie, et solutions potentielles.
• Nothing2hide, une structure associative qui s’est donnée comme objectif d’offrir aux journalistes, avocats, militants des droits de l’homme, "simples" citoyens, les moyens de protéger leurs informations. - also in english