PRIVACY

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Healthcare data breaches increased by 2733% between 2009 and 2019 in the United States. The alarming frequency of such attacks has resulted in the majority of Americans’ healthcare data being exposed. The origins of healthcare data breaches range from disgruntled employees to state sponsored hackers. On many occasions, the data ends up for sale on […]

A VPN ensures security, anonymity, and privacy when browsing the internet. But what if your VPN failed at some point while you surfed online? Your internet data transmission would become unsecured again, leaving you exposed to the world. That’s where a kill switch can come in handy, because it will automatically disconnect you from the […]

In general usage, obfuscation is done to hide or obscure a message’s intended meaning, making it difficult to understand. In the context of VPNs, obfuscation is done to hide VPN traffic, and hence bypass VPN blocks. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and governments love to spy on user traffic and use that info for data analytics. […]

Introduction to Tails and Tor The Amnesic Incognito Live System, or simply known as Tails, is a Debian-based Linux operating system whose ultimate goal is to preserve your privacy and anonymity. To achieve this, Tails forces all your internet traffic to route through Tor — software that lets you browse the internet anonymously. Tails is […]

Tor Browser is software that lets you surf the internet and use all web services anonymously. Nobody — not even government organizations, law enforcers, or big corporations — would be able to check your browsing history or track your location.

There may come a time in your career, working in a corporate environment or for your government, when you realize that something’s not right. You may find out that who you’re working for is betraying the principles they espouse when there were other more honorable ways to achieve their means. All of your colleagues are […]

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was created in mid-April 2016, the EU had hopes of creating an internet where the privacy of its users is more valued by making businesses implement an opt-in framework for their tracking cookies. In addition to establishing these goals, the GDPR has also inspired things like the California […]

Surveillance offers government agencies the ability to gain a deep understanding of a target. This can often be to prevent terrorism or other serious crime, but more and more we are seeing surveillance as a matter of course, and people are becoming so used to it that many don’t even care. Some forms of internet […]

The European General Data Protection Regulation is widely misunderstood by many small businesses. It’s one of those topics that many people have some idea about and are keen to talk loudly about, while frequently missing the point, although few really understand it. At its core, GDPR governs how businesses must protect EU citizens’ data, and […]

Many people these days know that their internet browsing is not particularly private, but most aren’t aware of quite how much they are being tracked. In this guide I will explain the most common methods of tracking, and how to overcome them and keep your internet usage private. Changing your browser or search engine won’t […]

Sure you can but the question is – do you really want to? Ultrasurf is a free client for Windows that gives you the opportunity to visit any website while having your traffic encrypted through a secure tunnel. The base idea is the same as that of a VPN. It works on Internet Explorer as […]

Signal Private Messenger is a secure messaging service that functions in a similar way to Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, but with added privacy.