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Online Dating: Are You Swiping Left on Your Privacy?

Christopher Wood, Executive Director, LGBT Tech

Apr 9, 2019
2 min

Online Dating: Are You Swiping Left on Your Privacy?

Last week, I joined MANA’s National President and CEO Amy Hinojosa for the first in a series of luncheon events on the politics of privacy at the AT&T Forum for Technology and Innovation. These luncheons are designed to address why women, communities of color and underserved communities, such as the LGBT community, have specific and different privacy concerns than other groups and should take online and data privacy even more seriously. This first discussion in the series tou

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Mobile Privacy and Security is Crucial for the LGBT Community

Carlos Gutierrez - Deputy Director & General

May 29, 2018
2 min

Mobile Privacy and Security is Crucial for the LGBT Community

LGBT Tech is tracking closely recent reports about the FBI’s decision to take Apple to court in order to force the company to unlock a mass shooter’s iPhone. While on the surface this may seem like a worthy and unassailable goal, just a quick look beneath the surface of such a request reveals a host of privacy concerns that could affect the LGBT community specifically. Law enforcement requests that would require that companies build a “back door” to encryption would create b

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Facebook’s Woes Affect Us All, Especially the LGBTQ Community

May 2, 2018
4 min

Facebook’s Woes Affect Us All, Especially the LGBTQ Community

In light of Facebook’s recent string of bad press around the Cambridge Analytica debacle, it is clear that protecting your data privacy needs to be an overarching concern for all users of the social network – and of the Internet at large. As Facebook grapples with being in the negative limelight around the world, data privacy concerns and targeted advertising and marketing have become household conversations in a way that was unthinkable even a few months ago. Internet-based

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Is Your Personal Address Easy to Get Online?

Jan 15, 2017
1 min

Is Your Personal Address Easy to Get Online?

Every time we access the Internet, we are leaving a digital trail but did you know that may include your personal physical mailing address too? We recently found a website built to help you put together a family tree but offers a lot more information than most of us would be comfortable with just anyone knowing. This website is FamilyTreeNow.com and it soared to attention this week after @Almost_Anna sounded the alarm on Twitter. For individuals in LGBTQ community, privacy, a

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