FreedomLab’s Tool Library compiles all online tools and resources that can be relevant for human rights defenders, spanning a wide variety of topics. Use the filters below to find relevant resources - tools can be filtered by Topic, Type, and Target Group. Please note that tools included in this library do not belong to FreedomLab and, whilst the Library is regularly updated and maintained by the FreedomLab team, users should be aware of the risks that arise by clicking on external links. If you know of a tool that could be added to this library, fill out this form.
The Scoring Society
This video looks at scoring applied to everyone’s lives, from credit and social media scoring and terrorist scoring. It demonstrates how our data is used to analyse each person’s score, and where...
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Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Confessions of a Data Broker
This video introduces the topic of the 'black box' of the multi-million-dollar industry that revolves around the trading of our data. It looks at the data broker market and which techniques...
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Digital Security
Information Collection and Documentation
Information Verification and Analysis
Decrypting Encryption
Decrypting Encryption is a series of short animations that focus on the encryption/decryption tool GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).
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Digital Security
ICWatch
This video gives an overview of "ICWatch", a project by Transparency Toolkit. The project collects and analyses the public resumes of people working in the intelligence community.
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Information Collection and Documentation
Citizen Ex
This video presents "Citizen Ex", a project by James Bridle on Algorithmic Citizenship. Citizen Ex questions the current citizenship framework in the quantified society.
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Digital Security
Inside Hacking Team
This animation video produced by the international NGO Tactical Tech showcases the "Inside Hacking Team" investigation by the SHARE Foundation.
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Digital Security
Re:log
This animation shows the movements of attendees of the 2013 Re:publica conference by capturing approximate locations of their devices when they were connected to local Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Digital Security
Life of Balthasar
This animated video shows an interactive visualisation of "The Life of Balthazar Glättli Under Surveillance" by Open Data City, the experiment that demonstrated the effect of the Swiss...
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Digital Security