Re: [liberationtech] Let's reunite the kids forcibly torn from their migrant parents

[Tim Schwartz]

Hi All,

I’ve been organizing the Missing Persons Community of Interest since after 
Haiti. We work on bringing together partners from govt 
(national/state/local/city…), tech, and humanitarian orgs to share lessons 
learned and strategies to approach reunification after disasters. We have a 
call later this week to discuss the current crisis in the USA. 

From all that I’ve heard so far, many NGOs are ready to act, but can’t without 
requests from the federal government (which isn’t asking for help). Some NGOs 
have put out statements but many are holding back because this is unfortunately 
a politically caused crisis. 

In terms of technology for reunification, the main problem (from my 
understanding) is that even within the US government there are multiple 
agencies using different systems for tracking. Data interoperability is always 
a problem (though it was been worked on extensively in the post-disaster 
systems), unfortunately because this is a politically caused situation there 
are no standard protocols to follow. 

Heather Blanchard wrote a good post - 
https://medium.com/@poplifegirl/dhs-hhs-orr-sidestepping-use-of-national-mass-care-strategy-to-avoid-transparency-and-access-de36d1788e72
 

 - about a possible way for local emergency managers to flip the switch on 
considering this an emergency which would trigger multiple agency 
collaboration. Unfortunately ESF-6 will never be triggered from the top down in 
this case. 

I will keep you all posted of what transpires in our group.

Cheers,
Tim


> On Jun 25, 2018, at 11:42 PM, Catherine Forsman  wrote:
> 
> Received an email back from a friend at the Red Cross. I asked him how they 
> setup coordination efforts to reunite families during and after disasters. I 
> wanted to see if there was any way to put all of us together to try to help. 
> however, he says the Red Cross already volunteered to help and submitted it 
> to the department of homeland security and they denied the offering of help. 
> I asked him to please let me know how they setup things to reunite families 
> after disasters anyway. I know there is paperwork, but perhaps it will be 
> good information to know in case their process has any interesting or helpful 
> bits of process. 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Yosem Companys  > wrote:
> Interesting. Thanks for the info, Andrés. Please keep us posted, should you 
> hear any updates.
> 
> I've already reached out but have yet to receive a response. That said, I'm 
> sure they're getting swamped with more important emails than mine (e.g., the 
> families affected).
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes 
> mailto:alps6...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> You can contact the following organization:
> 
> RAICES
> https://www.raicestexas.org/ 
> They were actually working on an “intake app” not sure how far they went, 
> with the permanent state of emergency we’re in in Texas regarding refugee 
> families..
> 
> Regards / Saludos / Grato
> 
> Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
> 
> On Jun 20, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Yosem Companys  > wrote:
> 
>> That would be awesome! Thanks, Catherine.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Catherine Forsman > > wrote:
>> Thank you for doing this! Let me contact someone I worked with volunteering 
>> after Karina and who has a lot of knowledge about the difficulties of 
>> coordinating separated families. The coordination effort is quite difficult, 
>> but perhaps, even if one child finds their parent, it is worth everything. 
>> 
>> Crowdsourcing is a very good way to think about it, and also mapping. 
>> 
>> Again, let me see if there is any advice I can gather from organizations 
>> that do this in how it could get off the ground quickly, even if they can 
>> simply let us know best practices. 
>> 
>> warm regards,
>> Catherine
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Yosem Companys > > wrote:
>> Note that I'm doing this in a personal capacity and NOT representing or 
>> speaking for Stanford in any way. 
>> 
>> This is just to kickoff a conversation...
>> 
>> Suzanne has obtained a domain name to host a database to keep track of all 
>> of the kids who have been forcibly removed from their parents. We need to 
>> track down 10K+ children at 100 shelters in 14 states: 
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/children-in-custody-trump-administration-immigration-zero-tolerance-policy-2018-5
>>  
>> .
>> 
>> As Suzanne suggests, we need to figure out how not to enable stalkers or 
>> deporting authorities while simultaneously helping the children find their 
>> parents, and vice versa. 

Re: [liberationtech] Encryption products online database

[Tim Schwartz]

https://prism-break.org is a pretty long list, but I tend to really use it for 
the discussions that happen in the github issues. It's good to see people talk 
about various providers. For example, I always watch the issues / discussions 
around protonmail.

https://github.com/nylira/prism-break/issues?utf8=✓=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20protonmail

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 25, 2017, at 20:57, Yosem Companys  wrote:
> 
> There is also the new Security Without Borders list at 
> https://lists.securitywithoutborders.org/mailman/listinfo/swb-public. 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Bram Wets  wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> Nice list. We'll look into that for our PrivacyCafés - hands-on workshops to 
>> increase your digital privacy by using tools and apps that protect your 
>> privacy.
>> 
>> Here are some other very interesting lists:
>> https://toolbox.bof.nl/
>> https://myshadow.org/resources
>> https://ssd.eff.org/
>> 
>> Does anyone know other lists?
>> 
>> Bram Wets
>> co-founder
>> Privacy Training Center
>> 
>> 
>> www.privacytraining.org
>> Unencrypted email can be read by anyone! Talk to me in private using 
>> encryption. 
>> Here's my PGP public key for encrypted email: http://bit.ly/1O6Gpna
>> 
>>> On 26/01/2017 1:33, Yosem Companys wrote:
>>> From: Covertactions 
>>> 
>>> Hey everyone,
>>> 
>>> In case you are not 
>>> aware I host an encryption software/hardware database online. It allows 
>>> searching by Type, Country, Cost, Open/Prop, Platform and you can also 
>>> add search terms or check to see if your product is listed.
>>> 
>>> I
>>> started this project back in April 2016. We visited everyone of the 852
>>> sites listed to make sure it was an encryption product. So far the 
>>> response has been good. I got the idea after hearing the politicians and
>>> the media give woefully incorrect info on the availability of 
>>> encryption software. A secondary reason was to make it easier to find 
>>> what you are looking for without trudging through search engines.
>>> 
>>> We
>>> still have only scratched the surface I think. The products listed are 
>>> the low hanging fruit. Next we'll trudge through search engines looking 
>>> for any more. I also hope to improve the site because I'm not really 
>>> happy with the limitations of search. But I through it up fast with 
>>> Wordpress just to get something up.
>>> 
>>> Check it out. I hope it's useful to everyone. BTW we currently have 51 
>>> developer tools listed.
>>> https://covertactions.com
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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[liberationtech] Privacy Best Practices for Missing Persons Online Registries

[Tim Schwartz]

Dearest LibTechs,

We over at the Missing Persons Community of Interest (
http://wiki.crisiscommons.eu/wiki/Missing_Persons) have been working on a
number of best practices documents this year and our latest document is
specific to privacy. Bob Gellman is the lead author of the document and has
done a great job of building a useful document for our group. It has
undergone a number of revisions and we are now requesting feedback from the
larger crisis/technology/privacy community. We hope that some of you can
provide comments and feedback as we try to finalize this document by the
end of the summer.

I am attaching the current version of the document as a word doc and below
is a link to the google doc, please feel free to use whichever is easiest
for you and return to me.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYRCkAS299p1dChiZ2u_QkMZbYlJVpG7SXvykzKe2r4/edit

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Tim
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