VPN: The Myth and the Facts VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. You can learn more about what a VPN is from this article. VPNs are becoming more and more mainstream especially now that a VPN service has spending millions of dollars to reach the masses via television advertising. The company is NordVPN. NordVPN is now using TV… Read More »
The CLOUD Act and Your Privacy The Cloud Act was passed by the U.S. house and senate with very little discussion and very people knowing anything about it. It was part of the $1.3 trillion U.S. government spending bill that was rushed through congress in order, among other things, to keep the U.S. government funded. We’ve been reading… Read More »
What is Doxing? Doxing is a method by which someone harvests personal information about an individual by searching the Internet, social media, cellphone number, etc. Most of the highly personal information that is harvested by doxxers is information which is easily accessed because of the individuals own self-disclosures. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. provide… Read More »
Cloudflare Claims Their New Free DNS Service Will Help Protect Your Privacy On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare introduced its new DNS service which competes (mainly) with Cisco’s Open DNS and Google’s Public DNS, Cloudflare is making extraordinary claims for its DNS service including a promise of privacy backed up by 3rd-party auditing. Since it’s so new, there’s no… Read More »
And When You Click OK I was online doing some research for an upcoming article when I – quite by accident – stumbled onto a post from Time.com / Money. After we posted an article on how to share large files with Google, I noticed that many people are concerned with privacy in general and Google in particular.… Read More »
Privacy Badger: The Badger of Privacy We think “Do Not Track” browser features and browser add-ons are worthless – they assume that everything and everyone is tracking you for evil purposes and thus they block everything regardless of who or what it is, who it is, even it may be beneficial. Yes, indeed, we tells ya…… Read More »