Online Privacy Resources, Guides & Research

Google Analytics is a free tool by Google that provides robust insights into website visitor performance and statistics. Many businesses integrate Google Analytics into their websites to track visitor statistics and gather valuable web metrics. However blocking Google Analytics is more widespread now due to various privacy concerns. Once a person blocks Google Analytics, that […]

The View from the Remote Workplace Working from home increases the risk to system security and data privacy. With this guide, remote workers and independent professionals can: Recognize and avoid basic security threats. Set up effective cybersecurity practices. Establish effective security habits.

You wouldn’t know it by watching the news, with everything that’s been happening surrounding the pandemic and global politics, but up until this point, 2020 has been one of the worst years for cyber attacks. Notable corporations and organizations like NASA, McDonald’s, Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Lockheed Martin, Google, even cybersecurity companies FireEye and SolarWinds […]

If you want to use the best data processing tools out there, then you have to use those made by US companies. If you want to use these tools, then you likely need to send the personal data of your EU users to the US. And this is where things become tricky for businesses. This […]

A step-by-step practical guide for the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) There are thousands of articles on the web that analyze in-depth the legalese and jargon of the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018. But as a business owner or data protection officer that handles the personal data of California residents, you just want to […]

According to Statista, in 2020, around 3.6 billion people used some form of social media. A graph, by Statista, representing the trajectory of growth for social media, shows usage will increase to over 4.4 billion souls by 2025. By current projections, we are already at almost half of the world’s population using a social media […]

Data-informed decisions keep the profits high while optimizing the costs of acquiring new customers, so almost every single online business wants to monitor what you do on the internet. This keeps their costs low while converting you to a paying customer. In the meantime, the monitoring has gone wild and governments reacted with more stringent […]

Many of us have woken up to a new year, after a dreadful 2020, wondering about our lives, who we are, and how we impact the planet. This feeling of doing harm is not just because of Covid-19 running rampage across the human species. This climate of harmful behavior has been percolating in tech circles […]

The human face is something we are programmed to recognize; the face has an evolutionary history that reflects how our species has changed over time. But now this essence of humanity, our face, has entered a new era, one of commoditization and control of systems based on its morphology: in other words, facial recognition. But […]