If you want to silence an advocacy group or media outlet, a fairly easy way to do so it to take down its website. Two organizations, Cloudflare and Google are doing great work to help nonprofits and journalists, as well as elections officials, protect themselves against cyber attacks. In this episode we talk to Alissa Starzak from Cloudflare and George Conard from Google about their efforts. We also share how you can take advantage of their free services (Cloudflare's Project Galileo and Google Jigsaw's Project Shield). 

After that we talk to Laura Noren, a data scientist who was recently with NYU teaching a class on data ethics. What do data scientists need to know create technology that is better for society as whole?

More on Cloudflare's Project Galileo: http://bit.ly/2LDeYbJ

More on Google Jigsaw's Project Shield: http://bit.ly/2O3KZLG

Course syllabus from Lauren's class: http://bit.ly/dataethicsnyu

NYU Data Science Community newsletter: https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/

More on Alissa: http://bit.ly/2LoWRcS

More on George: http://bit.ly/2LwjMCW

More on Laura: https://twitter.com/digitalFlaneuse

More on our host, Brian: bit.ly/cdtbrian

Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.