What can be done and how difficult is it? This is the core question. The answer is that quite a bit can be done that is not very hard. Of course it is up to each person to decide how much effort to invest for how much gain. Taking even a few of these measures […]
There are some privacy community voices that point out that email contents is not secure except between users of an E2EE service or when PGP (GPG) is used. They further say that since this is true there is no real point in E2EE email providers. Here we explore what is and is not true with
Privacy represents more than just wanting to keep personal information secret or hidden from others. It epitomizes a fundamental human right that is essential for individual liberty in any free society. When privacy erodes, it threatens people’s intrinsic abilities to freely think, develop ideas, and determine how they want to live their own lives. In
Lawmakers Demand Amazon Censors Alexa After WaPo Complains Its Responses Referenced Rumble, Substack Lawmakers are demanding that Amazon take “proactive measures” to ensure that its voice assistant, Alexa, doesn’t provide “false claims about the outcome of the 2020 elections” after a Washington Post article complained that Alexa was citing responses from Rumble and Substack. The
I highly recommend Reclaim The Net for keeping up with some of this content. In today’s feed from them I see the below. US Senator Michael Bennet Invokes EU’s Censorship Demands, Calls For Big Tech to Censor “Misinformation” The turbulent situation between Israel and Hamas was recently seized upon by Democratic Senator Michael Bennet as
There has been a concerned push to have all content publishing sites institute demonetization and deplatforming of those who some committees or organizations or NGOs are spreading “disinformation” or “harmful content”. This has even been extended to seeking to control ALL means of monetizing opinions that are ill-favored by the elite including crypto. There
Good signup and login credential are of utmost importance for privacy and security. According to NordPass, the most common passwords in 2022 were: Many people use the names of family members or a pet. Perhaps they spice it up a bit with some l33t replacement of some letters with numbers. Maybe they even are
Of couroe they won’t call it that. Instead they will insist they are protecting us. How? By criminalizing all narratives that disagree with what the government wants to claim is true. You would think that some of the worst of the COVID prpoganda and censorship would lighten up now that many of the approved positions
One wonders what could pose a bigger health threat than the attempts to lock down what kind of medical treatment is available during a serious medical event or pandemic to only what Big Pharma and Big Government orders. The “misinformation” is anything anyone questioned, even those with very strong relevant credentials, about what the likes
Another common objection is the fear that practicing privacy more seriously will make you stand out and draw more attention from various spook agencies. Perhaps some Data Broker will note anomalous records. The reason this isn’t much of a worry is that the data gathering machinery is geared toward the common case of little