Compartmentalization and Accidental Outing

image by freeimageslive.co.uk - gratuit I have long thought that compartmentalization was a realistic, and indeed the best technique for an individual to avoid privacy breaches when using the Internet in their day-to-day lives. However, recently I was talking with a student who practiced compartmentalization in her everyday life, and yet still fell victim to a privacy violation. Despite being a computer science student with plenty of technical knowledge and hands-on privacy experience, she still fell victim to a privacy violation referred to as accidental outing.

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PrivacyLx joins the Reclaim Your Face campaign

The Reclaim Your Face Campaign It’s a European Citizens’s Initiative (petition) with the goal of banning biometric mass surveillance. You can read more about it and sign it at reclaimyourface.eu Signature Collection Our team will be going to the streets in Lisbon to collect signatures. And we’ve already started! On the 25th of April (freedom day in Portugal) we walked along Restauradores collecting signatures with the following poster:

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Community Gatherings on Wednesdays

Dear PrivacyLxers, We’ll be trying out a weekly community discussion online in our chat. Would you like to bring a topic for discussion? Are you concerned with your digital footprint or/and want to protect your privacy online (and offline)? Then you have a good reason to join us on our weekly gathering, where we will be having lively discussions and Q&A on security, privacy, anonymity and freedom of expression online.

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