Technology Pill

The European Union's top court rules that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy. But what does that mean for government's data collection schemes? And what does it take to fight a legal battle lasting years? Find out more on our website: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4206/qa-eus-top-court-rules-uk-french-and-belgian-mass-surveillance-regimes-must-respect And make sure we can keep taking these fights to court: support.privacyinternational.org

PI's Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project speaks with Lintang Setianiti and Miftah Fadhli from the Institute for Policy  Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) in Indonesia about reproductive rights in  the country.

PI's Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project speaks with Maite Karstanje  and Nadia Ferrari from Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género  (ELA) in Argentina, which works with Latin American feminist  institutions to promote and defend human rights and gender justice in  the region, about reproductive rights in the country.

PI's Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project speaks with Dr. Subasri Narasimhan and Dr. Dabney Evans from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in the US about their paper which documents how  misleading health information about reproductive health can flow into  policy and legislative debates. 

This week we talk to a whole host of guests, including María Paz Canales Executive Director of Derechos Digitales, about the issues with coronavirus immunity passports and whether the digital ID industry is capable of rising to the moment.

This week we talk to PI's Tech Co-ordination Groups to bring you tips and tricks about how to start cleaning up and securing your phone or computer. Episode notes Useful info How to minimise targeted ads: privacyinternational.org/act/minimise-targeted-ads Protect yourself from online tracking: privacyinternational.org/act/protect-yourself-online-tracking  Social media account settings: privacyinternational.org/act/protect-yourself-social-media-monitoring  Our Onion address: privacyintyqcroe.onion  Episode Info 3:24 - reasons to delete apps you’re not using  6:18 - 4 things you should do first 6:37 - Updates  7:59 - Password managers Keepass, 1password, Lastpass 11:40 - Has your data been breached? haveibeenpwned.com/ 12:56 - Backups  19:05 - Apps 20:52 - Firewalls  Netguard - play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en_GB  Clamwin - clamwin.com  28:45 - When is too old too old  31:12 - iPhone  Better Blocker - better.fyi  36:27 - Android  40:29 - Social Media  40:29 Facebook/instagram  Facebook TOR address: facebookcorewwwi.onion  Zynga hack: theguardian.com/games/2019/dec/19/170m-passwords-stolen-in-zynga-words-with-friends-hack-monitor-says  45:20 - Twitter  MicahFlee - delete your tweets: micahflee.com/2019/06/semiphemeral-automatically-delete-your-old-tweets-except-for-the-ones-you-want-to-keep/  Social media monitoring by local authorities - privacyinternational.org/long-read/3586/when-local-authorities-arent-your-friends  49:40 - Email  51:35 - Desktops  51:50 - Windows  CCleaner - ccleaner.com/  WinDirStat - windirstat.net/  55:42 - Mac OS  Little snitch - obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html  58:20 - Linux  Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) - linux.com/training-tutorials/introduction-uncomplicated-firewall-ufw/  Firewall D - firewalld.org/ 1:01:40 Encryption  Veracrypt - veracrypt.fr/en/Introduction.html  Bitlocker - support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028713/windows-10-turn-on-device-encryption  

Why do Google want to buy Fitbit? What do they get out of it? And why should competition regulators be concerned? Gus talks to two of PI's lawyers - Ailidh and Ioannis - to ask why we're telling the EU commission to block the merger. Find out more and sign the petition at: pvcy.org/notwatch Music: Last Chance Saloon by Sepia

PI's Reproductive Rights and Privacy Project speaks with Ruth Taylor, the CEO of the UK-based charity Abortion Support Network about how  opposition groups are using misinformation to delay people from  accessing safe abortion care. 

From double registration to exclusion and discrimination - this week we talk to Yusuf Bashir, Executive Director of Haki na Sheria, and Keren Weitzberg, an academic from UCL, about the trouble with Identity in Kenya.  You can find out more about Haki na Sheria here: http://hakinasheria.org/ Find out more about double registration in Keren's piece "In Kenya, thousands left in limbo without ID cards" in CodaStory: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-biometrics-double-registration/ Find out more about the Huduma Namba case on our website: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3350/why-huduma-namba-ruling-matters-future-digital-id-and-not-just-kenya

With huge numbers of people out on the streets standing up for their rights in the US and Hong Kong, and around the world - we take a look at  the surveillance tools police and security forces round the world have been using to monitor people as they exercise their civil rights. Given everything that's happening at the moment around the world, we've decided to postpone our episode on ID in Kenya until next week. Some of the resources we mentioned in the episode can be found here: ACLU: know your rights: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/ EFF Attending a protest tool: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest Netpol - know your rights: https://netpol.org/know-your-rights/ Motherboard: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3devm/motherboard-guide-to-not-getting-hacked-online-safety-guide