Protect Your Privacy

Or Safety On The Web

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  • protect your privacy as you interact with others on the web, and
  • keep you, your devices and those you interact with online safe.

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  • Get Safe Online
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    This website offers useful guidance for individuals and organisations to help them protect their devices and privacy.

  • Use DuckDuckGo to protect your privacy
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    "Our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. For over a decade, we've created new technology and worked with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all." Source: DuckDuckGo.

  • Have You Deleted Your Google Search History Yet?
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    This is one of many useful articles published in the Official DuckDuckGo Blog.

  • Big Brother Watch
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    “We work to roll back the surveillance state and protect the rights of everyone in the UK to be free from unfair intrusion.” Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch.

  • ProtonMail Logs Activist's IP Address With French Authorities After Swiss Court Order
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    The Hacker News reported on 6 September 2021 that ProtonMail were recently forced to cede to a legal request in Switzerland (where the company is based) to share the IP address of a group of political activists with law enforcement authorities in France, despite stating on their website that: "No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first." Hacker News reported that "ProtonMail users who are concerned about the visibility of their IP addresses should use a VPN or access the email service over the Tor network for additional anonymity".
  • Fake NHS vaccine Passport Emails and Texts Warning
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    "Scammers are hoping to cash in on any confusion around the end of pandemic restrictions – watch out for these fake emails and texts." WHICH? July 2021.

  • Reasons not to use Facebook? #1
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    "Facebook Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case".

    Source: The Hacker News, 2022.

  • Reasons not to use Facebook? #2
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    "533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online".

    Source: The Hacker News, 2021.

  • The Open Rights Group
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    "Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online."

    Source: Open Rights Group.

  • Google Analytics and GDPR
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    If your organisation which sell into the EU could it unwittingly find itself in breach of legal regulations as a result of using Google Analytics?

  • Subscribe to The Hacker News newsletter
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    "The Hacker News (THN) is a leading, trusted, widely-acknowledged dedicated cybersecurity news platform, attracting over 8 million monthly readers including IT professionals, researchers, hackers, technologists, and enthusiasts." Source: The Hacker News.