This document provides an introduction to privacy tools for surviving in a surveillance society. It discusses the extent of surveillance in the UK through CCTV cameras and internet data interception programs. It then summarizes privacy tools like Tor, TAILS, and DuckDuckGo that can help provide anonymity online by routing traffic through volunteer networks or not tracking users. The document recommends using these tools correctly to anonymize web use while recognizing they must be used properly to be effective. It cites whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about global surveillance programs as motivation for protecting online privacy.

1. An Introduction to Surviving
in a Surveillance Society

2. Contents
• The Surveillance State
• Who is currently watching you online (in the UK)?
• If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide!
• Ask yourself
• Edward Snowden
• Privacy Tools Tor, TAILS, Disposable e-mail, DuckDuckGo
• Anonymity
• Bibliography

3. The Surveillance State
• There are up to 5.9 million closed-circuit television cameras in the
country, including 750,000 in “sensitive locations” such as schools,
hospitals and care homes. - British Security Industry Authority
• GCHQ had placed data interceptors on fibre-optic cables that carry
internet data in and out of the UK. 850,000 NSA contractors have
access to the data
• Since April 2004, the police in England and Wales have been able to
take DNA samples without consent from anyone arrested on
suspicion of any recordable offence.

5. Who is currently watching you online?
(in the UK)
Your mobile phone provider
Your ISP

6. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing
to fear!
“If we have nothing to hide, why are we under surveillance?”
Jake Lawler
“Wanting my privacy is NOT equal to having something to hide.”
James Earl Walsh

7. Ask yourself: who would you like reading
personal communications
• Your parents?
• Your school?
• A stranger?
• The government?
Then ask yourself if you believe privacy is a right or an inconvenient
option

8. Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is an American privacy
activist, computer professional,
former CIA employee, and former government
contractor who leaked classified information from
the United States National Security Agency (NSA)
in 2013.
The information revealed numerous global
surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and
the Five Eyes with the cooperation
of telecommunication companies and European
governments.
(Source: Wikipedia)

9. Privacy Tools
• Tor
• TAILS
• Disposable e-mail
• DuckDuckGo

10. Privacy Tools:
The Onion Router (Tor)
Tor is a service that helps you to protect your anonymity while using the
Internet. Tor is comprised of two parts:
• software you can download that allows you to use the Internet
anonymously,
and the
• volunteer network of computers that makes it possible for that software to
work.
When you use the Tor software, your IP address remains hidden and it
appears that your connection is coming from the IP address of a Tor exit
relay, which can be anywhere in the world.

11. How Tor Works

12. How Tor Works

13. Privacy Tools:
The Amnesiac Incognito Live System (TAILS)
TAILS is a Linux-based live OS that runs off a CD or USB
All its outgoing connections are forced to go through Tor, and direct
(non-anonymous) connections are blocked.
The system leaves no trace on the machine unless explicitly told to do
so.
A completely new session is started every time you log in

14. Privacy Tools:
Disposable e-mail
Disposable e-mail addresses are available from a number of sources,
for the purpose of this discussion I will mention Guerrilla e-mail
Guerrilla Mail gives you a disposable email address. There is no need to
register, simply visit Guerrilla Mail and a random address will be given.
You can also choose your own address.
You can give your email address to whoever you do not trust. You can
view the email on Guerrilla Mail, click on any confirmation link, then
delete it.
Guerrilla Mail deletes all email that was delivered to an inbox after 1
hour. Logs are deleted after 24 hours.

15. Privacy Tools:
DuckDuckGo
DDG is a search engine that does not track or collect information about
its users

16. The tools mentioned in this presentation are freely available online
Using them correctly will enable you to anonymise a large part of your
web use, however it is up to you to make sure the tools are used
correctly otherwise their usefulness will be limited.

17. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the
majority. . . .
It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of
Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to
protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . .
at the hand of an intolerant society.
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (93-986), 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

18. Bibliography
Amnesty International, (2015). [online] Available at:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/04/7-reasons-why-ive-got-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-
response-to-mass-surveillance/ [Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
DuckDuckGo, (2015). DuckDuckGo. [online] Available at: https://duckduckgo.com/ [Accessed 16 Oct. 2015].
Electronic Frontier Foundation, (2015). Electronic Frontier Foundation. [online] Available at:
https://www.eff.org/en-gb [Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
Electronic Frontier Foundation, (2011). What is a Tor Relay?. [online] Available at:
https://www.eff.org/pages/what-tor-relay [Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
Guerrillamail.com, (2015). ✉ Guerrilla Mail - Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address. [online] Available at:
https://www.guerrillamail.com [Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
The Tor Project, (2015). Tor Project: Anonymity Online. [online] Torproject.org. Available at:
https://www.torproject.org/ [Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
Wikipedia, (2015). Edward Snowden. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
[Accessed 14 Oct. 2015].
Wired UK, (2015). A simple guide to GCHQ's internet surveillance programme Tempora (Wired UK). [online]
Available at: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/24/gchq-tempora-101 [Accessed 16 Oct. 2015].