About
Protecting your privacy shouldn’t take an expert.
Your phone, your apps, and the accounts you sign into give away far more than you’d guess — and the settings that would rein it in are buried, off by default, or written in jargon. We’re a student club at Pitt, and we work on what gets collected about you, and on how much of it you can see and control.
What we do
Teach the basics. Workshops and plain-language guides, so protecting yourself doesn’t take a background in security.
Investigate. Original, sourced research into what actually watches you — campus cameras, banks, data brokers, and the rules behind them.
Publish resources. Vetted tools, step-by-step guides, and account-deletion help — all free, all open.
Push back. Explainer panels, Pennsylvania Right-to-Know requests, and op-eds on the surveillance you can’t opt out of.
How we stay honest
No sponsors, no affiliate links, no outside money.
Every claim traces to a primary source — or it’s marked and dated.
Issues, not candidates. We make the case; the voting’s yours.
Start to finish, by Pitt students.
Being a member
Meetings are where the work gets planned — every two weeks, open to any Pitt student. Sit in with no commitment, or pick something up: help research an investigation, draft a guide, or staff the table at the involvement fair.
Who runs it
Samuel Souiarov · President
Reol Audhasse · Vice President
Sydney Russell · Business Manager
Advisor
Dr. Lisa Nelson · GSPIA
References2 sources
Every source this page cites, numbered in the order it first appears. Each number in the text links here; each ^ links back.
- ^ Digital Rights at Pitt, club finances (shared on Proton Drive) drive.proton.me/urls/82YRJZTP40
- ^ Digital Rights at Pitt, website source code on Codeberg codeberg.org/digital-rights-at-pitt/pages
Get involved
It’s free, open to everyone at Pitt, and joining takes about a minute.
No dues, no experience needed. Come to a meeting, or leave your name and we’ll tell you when the next one is.