Links

Research

Pew Research report on smart-phone usage

Pew Research: Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information

Pew Research: Americans’ attitudes and experiences with privacy policies and laws

Engadget requested data from dozens of companies to see how well they kept their user privacy agreements.

World Economic Forum Report on Personal Data

Advocacy

Center for Humane Technology

GDPR

Main EU web site

Summary of GDPR definitions and rules

GDPR Vendors

Privacy

Fair Data Society

Ad Blockers

Identity

Digital Identity is at the core of the personal data locker. Here are the projects most likely to create the identity platform we all need:

Chapter One of Self-Sovereign Identity book by Drummond Reed and Alex Preukschat.

Definitely Identity, a podcast by Tim Bauma
Digital Identity Foundation
Internet Identity Workshop
DID — Digital Identity Standard
Idena — a proof-of-personhood blockchain for immutable identity.

@Sign — a self-sovereign ecosystem

Take Control of Your Own Data

Heimdal Security blog post on improving your online privacy.

Own Your Own Data Foundation — networking and education.

Government Surveillance

Edward Snowden’s Web site on government surveillance

Artificial Intelligence

Open.ai has raised over $1 billion so far. They have also launched a private company to build on their platform. Please see their web site to get a sense of the scale.
Human Brain Project in Europe’s goal is to bring all brain researchers together for faster collaboration and build simulations.