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A new privacy governance within Facebook’s organization

14 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Pot Project

Facebook recently revealed the new privacy committee, the decision was taken in it’s board of directors, a measure required under the agreement with federal regulators of the FTC after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg's company has an...

The next Tezos protocol upgrade contains fine tuned privacy features and will be injected within a few weeks.

13 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Walters

Today Nomadic Labs, one of the development teams that work on Tezos, announced that the Zcash Sapling Protocol "is currently fully implemented and feature complete." Sapling will add privacy features to the Tezos network. At this point of time, the m...

VPN or Proxy: What's the difference

13 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments AutomatorB

Proxy server is a server that serves as a middleman between you and everything in your web browser, so that your internet activities appear to come from somewhere else. Let’s say for example you are physically located in Paris and you want to log int...

10 Areas of Change in Cybersecurity for 2020

12 May 2020 5 minute read 6 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Cybersecurity in 2020 will be evolutionary but not revolutionary.  Although there is always change and churn, much of the foundational drivers remain relatively stable.  Attacks in the next 12 months are likely to persist in ways already known but ta...

The Road to Digital Freedom and Online Privacy.

11 May 2020 22 minute read 9 comments BQreus

Well, almost. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of those people who don’t like Big Tech (Google, Apple and Microsoft being the most prominent) very much or at least give alternative Technologies a shot. Good for you, you still have an open...

Privacy: How-to install and run Briar in Linux Mint

10 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment favicon

Briar is a highly secure and privacy focused P2P network/messenger, and was until recently only available on Android. This changed with the release of Briar GTK. I tried to get it up and running according to this instructions from the GTK Dev, but I...

My love/hate relationship with Google

7 May 2020 4 minute read 2 comments X-51

For a long time I was one of those people who just said "screw it, Google know almost everything anyway, so why should I try to hide anything from them". But that was a different me. These days my thinking is a bit different, and I have slowly (ever...

How to buy/sell/exchange Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) anonymously

6 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Jumble

The Bitcoin network is pseudonymous, it is not anonymous, see this post for more information. This is also true for all the cryptocurrencies. Each cryptocurrency transaction is saved on the blockchain and cannot be changed. A block explorer, such as...

Personal Data Protection and Alre

5 May 2020 8 minute read 4 comments bernardos

What is Happening with Our Personal Data? Our personal data can be at risk if proper care and the correct security measures are not taken. When we browse or shop online, we have to enter our name, address, and user credentials. This data is saved and...

DuckDuckGo Right Ahead And Dump Google

4 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Tank

Or Qwant.  It just doesn't have the same pun-ability as DDG, and therefore didn't make the headline.  Sorry Qwant. To “Google” something simply means that you’re looking it up on the internet. Google has created a digital empire that’s synonymous w...