Let me introduce you to Internxt, a great alternative to Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer and Google Photos.

The world and its borders are slowly opening up after strict Covid lockdowns, and people are looking forward to travelling again. While this is great and fun, keep in mind that you might be subject to random searches and highly invasive and traumatic experiences.

I want to introduce you to a great Android developer team that released countless alternatives to apps that usually come for free but invade your privacy.

Today, I want to shed light on a fairly unknown but powerful Android app that helps you to locate trackers embedded in all your smartphone apps.

The security team of the popular password manager LastPass can't seem to catch a break. This is the second security breach this year, and they are connected.

Apple Inc. has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other iPhone owners. AirDrop allows the quick exchange of files like images, documents, or videos between Apple devices.

Twitter user Paul Moore discovered recently that his Eufy home security camera leaks unencrypted private images of faces and names to the cloud, even with cloud storage disabled.

Twitter is working on end-to-end encrypted Twitter DMs under the new leadership of Elon Musk.

You might wonder why you should be interested in another instant messenger app? Berty comes with heaps of neat feature, is packed in an appealing and modern design. It's secure but at the same time easy-to-use. It could be something your friends actually going to use.

Data breaches in a nutshell: Data breaches happen every day. It has become more important than ever to understand what a data breach is, how it happens, and how we, as users, can prevent it.

The Five Eyes is an international intelligence-sharing alliance. The Five Eyes countries are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

When you connect to a VPN, your data travels through a secure encrypted tunnel to a VPN server, where you’re assigned an IP address. A VPN protocol refers to the rules and instructions determining how the encrypted tunnel is formed.

Virtual private networks (VPN) and proxy servers are both great tools for protecting your identity online. People tend to think of them as doing the same thing.

A decentralized VPN (dVPN), like a more traditional centralized VPN (cVPN), hides your IP address, encrypts your data, changes your digital geolocation, and allows you to be safer when browsing the internet.

Online security and privacy are becoming increasingly important. Therefore, it isn’t surprising to see many people turning to internet security tools for more online protection.

Privacy, cybersecurity and anonymity are all different concepts that are often used interchangeably. Understanding the difference between these three is crucial to understanding how they work together to protect your identity online.

Grammarly is a popular proofreader who helped millions of people around the world to gain confidence in writing. In this post, you'll learn about an even better open-source Grammarly alternative, called LanguageTool.

In this list, we're introducing you to ten great privacy tools that come with out-of-the-box privacy features that don't require complicated setup or configuration procedures. Ideal for beginners or when setup time is a crucial factor.

Reddit ranks in the top 10 of most visited website in the world. Part of their business model is serving ads to their users and gain data with tracking. Nonetheless redditors all over the world appreciate and love the website for it's user submitted content.

Today we present you another GitHub Gem: privacy.sexy is an open-source privacy tool to enforce security and privacy best-practices on Windows and macOS.

This long overdue blog post covers the failed takeover attempt of this website, cryptocurrency donations theft, a successful smear campaign, corruption and censorship. All initiated, fabricated by Jonah Aragon, the project lead of PrivacyGuides.org and Aragon Ventures LLC.

What are GitHub Gems by PrivacyTools.io?

Today we present you two GitHub Gems: Portfolio Tracker, Wealth Management, Accounting and Analytics Tools that protect your privacy. Supports stocks, EFTs and crypto currencies. Both tools are respecting your privacy.

Picture this: You’re in a position where you want to expose wrongdoing but you’re afraid of retaliation. Whether it’s a company or a government, someone is putting lives, the environment, or society at risk with their actions.

You've decided to start your own website or blog and don't know where to start?

Always check your laptop BIOS/UEFI for native utilities first.

If we were to place security, privacy, and anonymity onto a sliding scale from 1-100, nobody is going to be able to achieve all 100s.

Pretty much the only thing left to do is to make sure that our data is not being changed or altered without our prior knowledge or consent.

You might never think of physical security coming into play too much if you have a very high level of Internet/Device security.

I know, I have already discussed different areas of encryption in varying levels of detail. But I think an aspect that needs to be highlighted even further is a point I made shortly above.

In the beginning sections of this paper, I talked a bit about creating strong passwords and how to store them securely.

The issue once you get to need such a level of security that you find yourself categorized in a paper like this is you are really the only person who knows what you need to keep yourself safe.

Once you get down to this level, you almost need to reevaluate everything about your threat model and what you are doing to protect yourself.

Before we dive to heavily into the tactics that are going to keep an individual at this level secure from a big name adversary, we have to consider the operating systems that we are doing our work on, communicating through, and using to send people information.

After you have put all of the above pages to good use, you are going to be left with a lot of unneeded data.

The issue with anonymity is that it is fairly easy to acquire online until you have to pay for something.

Metadata is data that describes other data.

It isn’t so obvious why after we discussed earlier about the strong encryption on a newer iPhone, they might not be considered a tool for anonymity but it is true. Cell phones are not devices that aid in you being anonymous.

If you are reading this but have no need for anonymity and really can’t see where it would fit into your Internet life, I at least hope you can imagine a situation where someone else might need it.

My first step in looking at anonymity is making use of the TBB and the Tor network. Tor was released in 2002 and has since evolved into a tool that is used by millions of people worldwide.

One of the other things you will have likely noticed me touching on is companies who are willing to share their PGP Key for customers so they can use email + PGP for communication to support.

Getting back to the good stuff, I have talked in the above pages about a term called FOSS or open source, or the long form Free, Open Source Software.

By now, the hope is that you have really begun to look at the services you are using on a day-to-day basis.

The “5 Eyes” countries refer to 5 countries (United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand) that have an intelligence agreement known as the UKUSA Agreement to share information with one another.

One of the other ways one can secure their connection to the Internet is to make sure that all incoming and outgoing connections are being passed through a Firewall.

There are very few locations where I actually trust connecting directly to the Internet.

One of your strongest counters to surveillance, attack, and theft of your devices is making sure the data on them is secure.

Hopefully by now you have registered for a ProtonMail or Tutanota account and are ready to start transferring some accounts over.

Right alongside messaging people in a secure manner, we have to think about how and where we are storing files in the cloud, and how those files are being shared with others.

Apple has provided a messaging service since the dawn of the iPhone many years ago and expanded on it to be a very privacy conscious and secure way of communicating.