The NSA, its contractors, and its global partners are collecting data about us, including our browsing history, location, phone-call metadata, e-mail content, and health information. Crypto-parties seek to mitigate that problem.Ĭrypto-parties are often posited as being anti-NSA or even anti-American, but that's not the case. In both cases, surveillance is chilling your expression. Under mass surveillance, though, we change how we act: we may choose not to go to a political meeting, or we may choose to stay quiet about a particular political opinion. Having something to hide is perfectly natural - what we tell to family is different to what we tell our employers or colleagues or friends, and that doesn’t make us duplicitous or secretive people.
In a society where we're all being watched (or we always think we're being watched), we automatically engage in behavior that's more passive and compliant. The private realm is the realm in which creativity and dissent and exploration and human freedom exclusively reside. Journalists need it to protect their sources, activists working under repressive regimes need it to make their voice heard, and ordinary citizens should be able to keep their professional and medical info secure. Whether you’re filing your taxes, browsing the Internet, or communicating with a loved one, privacy is a fundamental human right and it’s a non-negotiable requirement for a functional democracy. A tutorial for journalists and others interested in learning how to use the Tor browser, OTR instant messaging encryption, PDG e-mail encryption, and hard-drive encryption, led by Irish activist, student and writer Tommy Collison.Ĭrypto-parties are events where people bring along laptops and other mobile devices to learn how to use basic encryption tools and discuss privacy in more general terms.
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