Wiki Information Areas

Personal/Individual Data (Social media, communications, etc.)

This covers the many areas that we as individuals are vulnerable to security breaches, information loss, and data leakage. This might include private information from social media sites, personal device data, websites that harvest our information, and the ways that advertisers can gather and leverage data as well.

Data Security Best Practices:

• By device
• In the offline world

Understanding the Data You Generate:

• Social media data
• Collected by advertisers
• Ways your data can be used
• Controlling the data you create
• On your devices

Personal rights and responsibilities/legal

This area covers legal documentation on personal rights, as well as what we can do as individuals to protect ourselves or take action.

• Rights during police stops, and interactions with immigration and the FBI
• Different kinds of searches
• What to do if you've been arrested or detained (Legal Aid, pro bono representation)
• What if I'm filming?
• How to file complaints
• What's new and changing

Tools to protect yourself

This area contains hardware and software information available to protect ourselves against security breaches and information vulnerabilities.

• Protecting yourself against security breaches
• Using data for your own benefit

Personal behavior changes

A place for suggestions and tips for individual changes to better protect ourselves.

• Passphrases not passwords
• Encryption tools (browsers, email, device)