Privacy Basics
- Privacy Basics
Gmail uses standard encryption (TLS) to protect your messages by default. We
explain how to use enhanced encryption (S/MIME) in Gmail and the best
alternative if you’re looking for genuine privacy.
If you have a free email account from a big provide
- Privacy Basics
Private email is not just about blocking prying eyes or avoiding creepy online
ads. Privacy is a basic human right that you need to protect yourself and
ultimately defend your freedom, whoever you are, wherever you live.
Your personal email is part
- Privacy Basics
Cryptocurrency scams have cost people over a billion dollars — and they’re only
becoming more prevalent. Learn what to look out for to avoid being scammed
yourself.
The Washington Post recently reported that over $1 billion was lost to
cryptocurren
- Privacy Basics
The most private and secure way to communicate online is by using end-to-end
encryption. If you send an end-to-end encrypted message, it is encrypted on your
device (your iPhone, Android, or laptop), and it is not decrypted until it
reaches the devic
- Privacy Basics
Short Message Service (SMS), also known simply as text messaging, has been with
us since the birth of mobile phones (the first-ever text message was sent over
the Vodaphone network in 1992).
SMS is supported by almost every mobile network provider
- Privacy Basics
Email protocols explained
IMAP and SMTP are protocols used by email clients to send and receive emails.
POP3 is a legacy standard that is used less and less often these days.
* SMTP
* IMAP
* POP3
* APIs
* Proton Mail and SMTP, IMAP, and POP3
- Privacy Basics
If you are doing research into data privacy laws, you will eventually come
across the terms “personally identifiable information” and “personal data”. We
explain what those terms mean, how they are different, and what you can do to
protect your PII o
- Privacy Basics
Most of us created our first email addresses when we were teenagers using the
internet for the first time. Unfortunately, some of these email addresses
consist of childhood nicknames, names of pets, and other awkward monikers,
causing us embarrassmen
Since our launch in 2014, our vision has been to build an internet where privacy
is the default. For us, this not only means empowering people with the right
tools to defend their online privacy, but also encouraging safe and responsible
use of the i
- Privacy Basics
There are lots of instances when you want to send the same email to multiple
people. Sometimes, you want everyone to be part of the conversation and see each
other’s responses. Other times, you want to send the same email to multiple
people, but you
- Privacy Basics
Everything you need to know about cloud computing.
Before the internet, your computer performed all its computing tasks locally.
Your computer’s CPU and memory (etc.) were used to process information that was
also stored locally (for example, on you