Who Cares It Is Owned By Chinese Company There are competing claims here. One claim is that it is a national security threat through loss of US citizen privacy. Another is that somehow China is threatening the US through some kind of cultural corruption. At least this is what is in the minds of most […]
Extent of Privacy Problem What is the extent of the threats to privacy today? How much of our information is already collected? Location Tracking The shocking news is that by default today you are tracked 24/7. Your location is easily knowable within meters and in some conditions even more precisely.How is this accomplished? Cameras, Facial
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
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
Many people will say they have nothing to hide. Perhaps this and other variations below are in no small part because practicing privacy seems like too much hassle. In these posts I will show that it need not be difficult. If you believe you have nothing to hide please answer the following questions. Do you