In the early hours of 6 June 2020, Nicole Smallman and her sister Bibaa Henry had just finished celebrating Bibaa’s birthday with friends in a park in London. Alone and in the dark, they were both fatally and repeatedly stabbed 36 times.
Privacy washing is a widely used deceptive strategy. Learning to detect it better is an important skill to develop to help us to respond to it and report it.
Improving privacy can get overwhelming at first. It's important to move one step at a time, but remain persistent. Good privacy is like good health habits.
Sometimes, it can feel like our data is collected completely outside of our control or consent. But we still have a powerful weapon to fight back: The power to say no.
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. But this convenience is a Trojan horse.
Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit privacy resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.
If you've been on the internet for a while, you're probably familiar with the old adage IRL (In Real Life). The acronym was used a lot when online and offline life was much more separated than it is now. Today, can we truly keep talking about our digital life as being separated from our real life?
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
Privacy is only dead if we let it die. Be careful about the all-or-nothing mindset in data privacy, it can do more damage than good to the cause. While striving for improvements, do not forget to cheer and celebrate each small win.
Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit privacy resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.
Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit privacy resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.
The man behind Facebook has somehow managed to make the Twitter experience worse.
The RESTRICT Act would grant the government broad powers to restrict access to any site or service they claim could pose a threat to national security, akin to China's Great Firewall.
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States, the US government enacted laws that weakened citizen privacy in the name of national emergency.
If someone has to tell you that they care about your privacy, they probably don’t.
Privacy, security, and anonymity often complement each other, but they are not always dependent on each other, and they are definitely not the same thing.
Each Tor relay is the direct result of an individual deciding to sacrifice money, time and effort for the cause of fighting for a freer Internet.
Choosing an instant messenger is a challenge. How can you be sure you’re using the most secure, privacy respecting platform?
