Black Friday has come to mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season and the day itself has become famous for online scams. Many people will be buying “Internet of Things” devices as Xmas presents but what are the issues with such things? In this…
Security Games? Privacy Salon will be participating in Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg by holding a special edition where we will be playing some security games for kids. Fun, practical and hands on, we’ll be exploring face paints to block facial recognition algorithms, making phone cases which…
A warm welcome to you, visitor | Bienvenue à toi, visiteur We all know the Internet is for cats, right? But what have London buses, wine crates, smoked fish, climbing trips and maybe even planning to buy islands got to do with cats? And why…
What is Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg? Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg is an advocacy-campaign week, which aims to raise awareness of cybersecurity threats, promote cybersecurity among citizens, corporate and SMEs, and provide up-to-date security information through education and sharing best practices. Security Games? Privacy Salon will be…
In this edition of the Privacy Salon we will look at attitudes towards Internet Security of the participants, based on the recently released Eurobarometer of the European Commission. We will ask the same questions in the report to participants of the Salon, compare the results…
Got a question about Internet privacy but never knew who to ask? Then this edition of the Privacy Salon is for you. Our knowledgeable panel will be on hand to answer your queries. No prior technical expertise or knowledge is assumed, so ask away about…
https://twitter.com/nd_kane/status/1105401570873749504 European Media Literacy Week https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/european-media-literacy-week EU Action Plan against Disinformation https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/54866/action-plan-against-disinformation_en First Draft https://firstdraftnews.org/ Crash Course Navigating Digital Information https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU Snopes https://www.snopes.com/ Bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/ Which Face Is Real http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/ Calling Bullshit https://callingbullshit.org This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Privacy Salon will be taking a deep dive into the murky waters of disinformation in the context of the European Media Literacy Week and the upcoming European elections. We will be investigating how disinformation spreads, how our data feeds it, what skills we need to…
Here are the links to to things shown at the Privacy Salon: Safer Internet Day edition: Gender and IoT research project: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/research/themes/digital-policy-laboratory/gender-and-iot General links on the topic of Gender & IoT: https://pinboard.in/search/u:cataspanglish/?query=g-iot Tweet about El Chapo & spyware : https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1083033189956964353 Video of victim: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tech-abuse-domestic-abuse-technology-marketplace-1.4864443 Tweet…
Crypto Apero on social networks, big data, careless companies and Brexit