Privacy Basics

- Privacy Basics
From holiday photos to our purchasing history to personal correspondences, our
emails contain a great deal of sensitive information.
It is therefore vital to keep your inbox and messages secure. This is more
difficult than it first appears, as email

With the proliferation of smartphones and social media, cyberstalking is on the
rise. Compared to traditional stalking, cyberstalking can be a more threatening
form of aggression as cyberstalkers can hide behind the anonymity of the
internet and terr

- Privacy Basics
Whether you’ve had enough of Big Tech companies monetizing your personal data or
just found somewhere else to shop, here’s all you need to know to permanently
close your Amazon account.
The “Everything Store” is everywhere. Amazon has grown into a d

HTTPS IS THE BACKBONE THAT KEEPS EVERYONE SAFE AND SECURE ON THE INTERNET.
HOWEVER, IT DOES LITTLE TO PREVENT YOU FROM BEING TRACKED ONLINE.
When you surf the web, you connect to websites using the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), first developed

- Privacy Basics
An email address is your portal to the internet. Without one, you can’t use most
of the services available on the web. Research from the Radicati Group shows
that most of us have multiple email addresses, with the number of addresses per
email user i

- Privacy Basics
If you’re struggling to think up strong passwords you can remember for your
online accounts, here’s a simple, secure solution — for you and the whole
family.
You’ve heard the security advice: “Create a unique, strong password for each
account”. But

With so much of your life spent on the internet, an organized inbox isn’t just a
matter of being tidy — it’s about being productive and focusing your attention
on tasks that really matter. The average office worker receives around 121
emails and send

- Privacy Basics
Your personal email address is an essential part of your digital identity. Like
your phone number, you don’t give it to everyone you meet.
That’s why it’s useful to have other email addresses you can use for different
purposes. But you may not want

Anonymity is not the same thing as privacy, and confusing these related but
different concepts can weaken your online threat model.
* Anonymity – Keeping your identity private, but not your actions. For example,
using a pseudonym to post messag

- Privacy Basics
Privacy services often rely on strong encryption to protect privacy and
confidentiality. Some terms that you have heard probably include AES, RSA, or
maybe even elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC). However, is encryption actually
bulletproof and a guar

Privacy and anonymity are often tossed about as synonymous terms but they are
actually related ideas that represent different things. Put simply:
* Privacy is freedom from observation or attention.
* Anonymity is freedom from identification or rec