[governance] Re: [bestbits] PRISM - is it about the territorial location of data or its legal ownership

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On 25-Jun-2013, at 15:20, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> In the context of the title of this thread (“PRISM...”) I was thinking
> of standards that would have the effect of protecting the privacy of
> casual communication via the Internet (e.g. by email or “chat”) among a

PGP type encryption of sensitive email

Peer to peer encrypted chat using open source clients like gaim, that come with an "off the record messaging" plugin 

That still won't quite guard against "metadata" if you use a public service that is hosted in the USA, but it will certainly protect the contents of your conversation.

You might of course run a jabber chatroom in some more privacy sensitive jurisdiction to get like minded people onto it.

--srs
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