Public Lab privacy and security guidelines

This document contains policies and recommendations followed by Public Lab staff for keeping digital data, devices, and private or sensitive data secure.

There are a few simple things you can do to dramatically increase your security and prevent breaches.

What’s at risk?

Security and privacy is a broad topic, and the best way to begin is to identify what you’re trying to protect. Consider:

• What are you protecting? Names and addresses? Photos, health data, passwords, or secrets?
• Whose information is it? Who should it be kept from? What resources do they have to find it out?
• Where do you store or transmit information? Using your phone or laptop? By email, text message, or phone call? On Dropbox or Slack?
• Who are you trusting when you store or transmit information? Your colleagues? An online service? Your office neighbors? People who share your printer?

PDF download

Get the full document here:

PublicLabElectronicSecurityBestPractices-v1-01-08-2019.pdf

Resources

• https://github.com/narwhalacademy/zebra-crossing
• http://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-keep-messages-secure (readable, practical)
• ​https://securityinabox.org/en/ (thorough and clearly organized, via our friends at Tactical Tech Collective)
• ​https://www.cryptoparty.in/learn/how-tos (too much info)

Questions