[Infowarrior] - EFF's SSD project

[Richard Forno]

The SSD Project

https://ssd.eff.org/

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance  
Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and  
technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing  
the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of  
surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.

Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions:  
What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and  
communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself  
against such spying?

After an introductory discussion of how you should think about making  
security decisions — it's all about risk management — we'll be  
answering those two questions for three types of data:

First, we're going to talk about the threat to the data stored on your  
computer posed by searches and seizures by law enforcement, as well as  
subpoenas demanding your records.

Second, we're going to talk about the threat to your data on the wire  
— that is, your data as it's being transmitted — posed by wiretapping  
and other real-time surveillance of your telephone and Internet  
communications by law enforcement.

Third, we're going to describe the information about you that is  
stored by third parties like your phone company and your Internet  
service provider, and how law enforcement officials can get it.

In each of these three sections, we're going to give you practical  
advice about how to protect your private data against law enforcement  
agents.

In a fourth section, we'll also provide some basic information about  
the U.S. government's expanded legal authority when it comes to  
foreign intelligence and terrorism investigations.

Finally, we've collected several articles about specific defensive  
technologies that you can use to protect your privacy, which are  
linked to from the other sections or can be accessed individually. So,  
for example, if you're only looking for information about how to  
securely delete your files, or how to use encryption to protect the  
privacy of your emails or instant messages, you can just directly  
visit that article.

Legal disclaimer: This guide is for informational purposes only and  
does not constitute legal advice. EFF's aim is to provide a general  
description of the legal and technical issues surrounding you or your  
organization's computer and communications security, and different  
factual situations and different legal jurisdictions will result in  
different answers to a number of questions. Therefore, please do not  
act on this legal information alone; if you have any specific legal  
problems, issues, or questions, seek a complete review of your  
situation with a lawyer licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.

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