Digital Safety
From the AAUP Center for Defense of Academic Freedom: Increasingly, academic freedom is being threatened from a whole host of directions. Politicians in many states have passed laws banning the teaching of certain “concepts” and shuttering DEI offices. Partisan interests, media outlets, congressional committees, and online trolls have targeted faculty for their teaching, research, and public speech. Some faculty face relentless harassment. These attacks can result in faculty being sanctioned, even fired. This Academic Freedom Field Guide from AAUP offers a collection of resources designed to help faculty, and their supporters, respond to these challenges. Responding to immediate concerns, FWC-AAUP has pulled out links to tools below that might help members.
Resources
2015-2017
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Surveillance Self-Defense is a good starting place for learning about how to protect yourself online and on your devices. SSD also offers a wide range of specific Tool Guides for practical help with securing devices and applications.
2011-2014
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PEN America offers an online harrassment field guide.
2007-2010
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PEN also offers a guide to protecting your devices and accounts from hacking as well as a guide of further digital security tips.
Legal Protection
If you are an AAUP or AFT member you have access to AFT legal benefits, which include a free 30-minute consultation (and 25% off legal fees). For a fee, you can also enroll in a MetLife Legal Plan, which offers additional legal protection.
Digital Security
Data and Society provides a Best Practices for Conducting Risky Research and Protecting Yourself from Online Harassment. The Electronic Frontier Foundation offers helpful digital self-defense resources. And companies such as Norton LifeLock and DeleteME can locate and remove your personal information from the internet for a fee.
PEN America has produced a series of short tutorial videos about how to create preemptive defenses against hacking, doxing, and social media harassment.
Mental Health
AAUP and AFT members have access to AFT benefits, including Talkspace therapy and/or trauma counseling member benefits.