ACLU of Northern California Launches dotRights

by Ryan Calo, posted on November 18, 2009 - 1:42pm

The ACLU of Northern California has officially launched dotRights, a comprehensive set of materials and tools to learn about, and act upon, privacy and free speech on the Internet. Complete with an interactive village covering topics from cloud computing to e-book privacy, this website and campaign represent a game-changing resource for anyone (company, activist, regulator, or consumer) who cares about privacy and free speech on the Internet. Congratulations and great work!

PS: You can follow the campaign on Facebook and Twitter.

Substantive Tags: cybercrime, privacy
Comment by PS4 (not verified), posted November 18, 2009 - 6:32pm

Cool! I'm following this on Twitter!

Comment by Marcus Maybourne (not verified), posted November 19, 2009 - 10:52am

Thanks for this info. I am a strong proponent of protecting free speech on the internet. I will definitely be using this site and also tweeting about it to help spread the word!

Best,
Marcus Maybourne, Psychotherapist

Comment by Sliding Glass Doors (not verified), posted November 22, 2009 - 6:21pm

Thanks for this notification. It is of interest to me, but I tried clicking the link and it takes me to a page that gives a message saying page not found. Hope this will be sorted out shortly.

Comment by Ryan Calo, posted November 22, 2009 - 6:45pm

Thanks very much for your note. I fixed the problem.

Comment by Dwippy (not verified), posted November 23, 2009 - 9:06am

I need to look into it a bit but it sounds like a resource that will come in handy in the future. I worry about the internet staying free for all to use.

Comment by Dwippy (not verified), posted November 23, 2009 - 9:10am

The link is working now SGD maybe it was just broken for a minute. I didn't have time to look through it was just checking to see that the link worked.

Dwippy

Comment by Halcyonic (not verified), posted November 23, 2009 - 11:55am

This seems like something that might be useful to skim through. I'm no fan of the ACLU most of the time, but I really do appreciate how they release information like this from time to time.

Comment by Craig Cecilio (not verified), posted November 23, 2009 - 2:00pm

Great site featuring some information that is vital for everyone to know. It's crazy how tracking cookies "watch" every move and search you make online. All our information is getting sold to companies who utilize our history in order to form marketing campaigns. We need our privacy back!

Comment by Art Saborio (not verified), posted December 5, 2009 - 11:51pm

It seems that as technology advances our privacy and security becomes more expensive to protect. Yet without technology we become stagnate as a society and nation. Educating ourselves in how this technology works will keep those that wish to exploit this information to a minimum.

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