SECURITY AND PRIVACY

“SAYING THAT YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT PRIVACY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE IS LIKE SAYING THAT YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.”
- ED SNOWDEN

“After years of secretly monitoring the public, we were astounded so many people would willingly publicize where they live, religious and political views, alphabetize their personal friends, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and hundreds of photos of themselves and even status updates of what they we’re doing from moment to moment. It was truly a dream come true for the C.I.A.” - Christopher Sartinsky, Deputy CIA Director

If you want to learn how your online information is used, and haven’t yet heeded the warnings of Edward Snowden, watch a film called ‘Terms and Conditions May apply’

Nothing to Hide, director Marc Meillassoux has made data privacy more personal and relevant to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

With Nothing to Hide in 2017, the filmmakers explored the costs of mass surveillance in a way that Forbes called “eye-opening.” The documentary reached hundreds of thousands of people, had over 200 screenings, and was released in seven languages. (The film is available in Creative Commons. Anyone can watch it for free

https://vimeo.com/nothingtohide

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Here are some of my personally recommended online alternatives:

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Private Web Search:

• StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands).

• Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source.

• MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.

• SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.

• Qwant – A private search engine based in France.

• DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US.

• Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).

• YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.

• Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.

• Ecosia – Ecosia is based in Germany and donates a part of revenues to planting trees.

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Private Encrypted Emails:

https://protonmail.com/

Secure VPN:
https://protonvpn.com/

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Secure online storage:
https://spideroak.com/

https://www.sync.com/

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