Protect Your Privacy

Decades ago (sigh) the Boomtown Rats released a single called 'Someone's Looking at You'.

They were right!

These links should help you protect your privacy as you interact with others on the Web.

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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.

  • Why make DuckDuckGo your default search engine?
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  • 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.