New book out! «Mecanismos de privacidad y anonimato en redes, una visión transdisciplinaria»

Three years ago, I organized a fun and most interesting colloquium at Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM about privacy and anonymity online.

I would have loved to share this earlier with the world, but… The university’s processes are quite slow (and, to be fair, I also took quite a bit of time to push things through). But today, I’m finally happy to share the result of that work with all of you. We managed to get 11 of the talks in the colloquium as articles. The back-cover text reads (in Spanish):

We live in an era where human to human interactions are more and more often mediated by technology. This, of course, means everything leaves a digital trail, a trail that can follow and us relentlessly. Privacy is recognized, however, as a human right — although one that is under growing threats. Anonymity is the best tool to secure it. Throughout history, clear steps have been taken –legally, technically and technologically– to defend it. Various studies point out this is not only a known issue for the network's users, but that a large majority has searched for alternatives to protect their communications' privacy. This book stems from a colloquium held by *Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo de Software Libre* (LIDSOL) of Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM, towards the end of 2018, where we invited experts from disciplines so far apart as law and systems development, psychology and economics, to contribute with their experiences to a transdisciplinary vision.

If this interests you, you can get the book at our institutional repository.

Oh, and… What about the birds?

In Spanish (Mexican only?), we have a saying, «hay pájaros en el alambre», meaning watch your words, as uninvited people might be listening, as birds resting over the wires over which phone calls used to be made (back in the day where wiretapping was that easy). I found the design proposed by our editor ingenious and very fitting for our topic!