Small tricks can have a big impact on your privacy
Conclusions
Every user has different priorities when it comes to protecting their privacy. Some people are happy with a browser that does not store cookies and does not create a history; others will not even use a smartphone or will only access the Internet via Tor. See the Privacytools.io website for a very good overview of Internet monitoring and privacy concerns [9]. The site focuses on open source applications and services that are committed to protecting the privacy of users, including recommendations for webmail providers, VPN service providers, search engines, email programs, instant messengers, and audio and video messaging clients. The Privacytools.io website also explains some reasons why privacy-conscious users should avoid Windows 10.
Infos
- "Spanish Football League Defends Phone Spying": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44453382
- WebRTC: https://webrtc.org
- AppRTC video chat client: https://github.com/webrtc/apprtc
- "Marc Zuckerberg Tapes over His Webcam: Should You?": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuckerberg-tape-webcam-microphone-facebook
- Wipe Tools: http://wipetools.tuxfamily.org
- Tails: https://tails.boum.org
- "More diagnostics data from desktop": https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-February/040139.html
- Ubuntu's Data Privacy statement: https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/dataprivacy
- Privacytools.io https://www.privacytools.io/
- Secure Deletion on SSDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Data_recovery_and_secure_deletion
- "Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives": https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf
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