Trump Presidency: Election, Transition, and Administration

From the American Library Association: "To restrict citizens’ access to information essential to their health because it fails to agree with the political viewpoint of a particular administration is blatant government censorship. Rather than returning power to the American people, such strategies endanger us."

From the ACLU: "In the midst of widespread reports of a clampdown on federal agencies’ public communications by the Trump administration, lots of people are asking about what rights federal government employees have to continue speaking to the public. The short answer? It depends."

Founded in 1996, the Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet. Use the Wayback Machine to see how a particular URL looked at different points in time.

From the Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association: "Last month, scientists and volunteers began scrambling to preserve scientific information from the U.S. government, wary about its fate under the incoming Trump administration. Targeting climate science data from throughout the U.S. government — especially NASA, NOAA, the EPA, and the Department of Energy — they spontaneously engaged in efforts to preserve it, including a “guerrilla archiving” hackathon in Toronto. It was heartening to see so many man the barricades to preserve information and insure that it remains accessible to those who need it, but it was also depressing that times make such measures necessary."

From Wired: "At 10 AM the Saturday before inauguration day, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, roughly 60 hackers, scientists, archivists, and librarians were hunched over laptops, drawing flow charts on whiteboards, and shouting opinions on computer scripts across the room. They had hundreds of government web pages and data sets to get through before the end of the day—all strategically chosen from the pages of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—any of which, they felt, might be deleted, altered, or removed from the public domain by the incoming Trump administration."

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.

Secure text messaging and encrypted voice-over IP calls into a single package that works as a full-fledged SMS replacement app for both iPhone and Android.

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The Tor web browser protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

This guide is intended to be a comprehensive and accessible introduction to some of the most valuable cybersecurity tools available.

You love the convenience of living online. But you want more control over where your personal information goes and who can see it. Researchers call this the Privacy Paradox. From February 6-10th 2017, WYNC's Note to Self ran a podcast and audience engagement series on the science, psychology, and technology behind that day’s challenge. You’ll learn where your digital information goes. You’ll weigh the tradeoffs you're making with each new app or service. And you’ll learn how to make digital choices that are in line with your values.