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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).\xa0\n\nAfter 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?\n\nMore on Cloudflare's Project Galileo: http://bit.ly/2LDeYbJ\nMore on Google Jigsaw's Project Shield: http://bit.ly/2O3KZLG\nCourse syllabus from Lauren's class: http://bit.ly/dataethicsnyu\nNYU Data Science Community newsletter: https://cds.nyu.edu/newsletter/\n\nMore on Alissa: http://bit.ly/2LoWRcS \nMore on George: http://bit.ly/2LwjMCW\nMore on Laura: https://twitter.com/digitalFlaneuse\nMore on our host, Brian: bit.ly/cdtbrian\n\nAttribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.