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This guide looks at privacy in the digital age. It provides research tips as well as tools and strategies to protect your privacy and personal information.
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What is Privacy?
Privacy is not an easy concept to define because it means different things to different people. In today's digital world, thinking about privacy is more important than ever. Answering the following questions will help you decide what privacy means to you, as well as how you protect your privacy and benefit from sharing your personal information.
- Who wants access to my personal information?
- What information do they want?
- Did they ask me if they could use it?
- What are the risks related to sharing this information?
- What are the benefits to sharing it?
- Am I comfortable with sharing information?
- If I am not comfortable, what can I do to change the situation?
Privacy, Security and Anonymity
The diagram illustrates the relationship between privacy and the related concepts of security and anonymity. Sometimes being anonymous can protect your privacy, while sometimes it takes security measures to protect it.
Privacy Sources
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. The EFF provides advice and education through comprehensive educational guides about tools and topics.
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Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)EPIC is an independent nonprofit research center working to protect privacy, freedom of expression, democratic values, and to promote the Public Voice in decisions concerning the future of the Internet.
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Legal Informatioin InstituteThe LII is based at Cornell Law School. Its mission is to make legal information (including privacy law) easy for all to understand.