How to protect your privacy at protest.

Learn how to protect your privacy in a street surveillance situation during protests.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📖 EFF guide on attending protest: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest

📱Recommended Apps:
Signal || Briar || Silence
OsmAnd Maps || ObscuraCam
ScrambledEXIF || Image Scrubber (Website)

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#Privacy #Surveillance

Reclaim our Privacy

A short video that explains the threats to our privacy, the importance of its protection and the tools that can help us to reclaim it.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📡 Globally running surveillance projects: Here

📖 How to protect yourself:
PrivacyTools🎖 || ProPrivacy || EFF || Securityinabox

🛠 Services/Software Alternatives
AlternativeTo🎖 || OSALT
PrismBreak || DeGoogled-Life

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Surveillance #Privacy #Alternatives #Encryption

The Ultimate iOS Privacy & Security Guide

This video covers authentication, passwords, VPNs, biometrics, search engines, browsers, Tor, 2FA, and so much more to cover everything related to Apple Privacy!

📹Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

• Recommended:
Quick checklist ios || PM🛡 Security Guide

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#ios #Guide #Privacy #Encryption

US schools/colleges leaked 24.5 million records in 1327 data breaches since 2005

Since 2005, K–12 school districts and colleges/universities across the US have experienced over 1,300 data breaches, affecting more than 24.5 million records.

📖 Read more: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/us-schools-data-breaches/

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#DataBreach #News

5 reasons why you should choose Linux over Windows or Mac OS

#linux #windows #mac

Proton VPN is the only best FREE VPN you should use and this is why.

Pros
1. Open source.
2. Unlimited bandwidth.
3. No log policy
4. Custom DNS support (windows only) you can set Adblocking DNS servers to block ads at DNS level.
5. Clients for all platforms.
6. Decent speeds.
7. Kill switch.
8. Split Tunneling. (Exclude apps from using VPN)
9. Bypass Blocking.
10. Ovpn profile export feature (in free plan too)
11. Outside Surveillance eyes Jurisdiction.
12. 3 countries servers i.e NL, JP, US (in free plan)

Cons:
1. No torrenting (Blocked in free plan)
2. No streaming sites unlock (Restricted in free plan)

📖 Read the full article: https://www.top10vpn.com/reviews/protonvpn-free/

• SignUp for Free Plan HERE
• Download Proton VPN HERE

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#VPN

Did you know, 101 VPN products are run by just 23 companies

A shocking research by VpnPro reveals the Hidden VPN owners of many VPN products in the market.

This includes both cross-platform and mobile-only VPN products. It also includes direct subsidiaries or products/brands, as well as white label services. 

Almost third of the popular mobile-only VPNs are actually Chinese (run by Chinese nationals or actually located in China). This means user data is likely open to Chinese authorities.

📖 Read more: https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/

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#VPN #DataBreach

Best startup Linux distros for hardcore Windows users

This video helps in choosing best startup Linux distros for windows users who are confused what to choose from huge Linux choices & has not much experience about using Linux. These OS helps in providing best startup experience to new users.

🎦 Watch video:
YouTube || Invidious

Recommended for Starters:
• Linux Mint Cinnamon (Ubuntu based)
• Zorin OS (Ubuntu based)
• Manjaro (Arch based)

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#OS #Linux #Windows #Alternatives

How secure are Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and iCloud?

When it comes to backing up data online, there are several key services that people tend to use. These being; Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and iCloud. In this article, we will look at these popular storage services and review how secure and private these cloud storage services actually are.

📖 Read the full article here: https://proprivacy.com/cloud/guides/how-secure-is-cloud-storage

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Cloud

You are being tracked

A short video on Surveillance & Privacy state in today's world. It is almost impossible to avoid being watched in the 21st century, from online trackers to the public nature of data on the web.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Surveillance

Sync your files for free, and maintain privacy, using open-source Syncthing

Syncthing is a secure decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file synchronization program that can sync files between devices on a local network or over the internet. It is completely free and open source (FOSS). Syncthing allows you securely to backup data without the need to trust a third-party cloud provider. Data is backed up to a computer or server that you directly control, and is at no point stored by a third-party.

📖 Read more: https://proprivacy.com/cloud/review/syncthing

🌐 Website: https://syncthing.net/
📱 Download app from F-droid

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#Cloud

How to check your device for Stalkerware

Stalkerware is an monitoring software OR somewhat spyware that is used for stalking. These softwares mostly keep hidden on devices, but it sends a lot of detailed information to its controller/owner that maybe your prying boss or an paranoid partner.

📖 Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-check-for-stalkerware/

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#DataBreach #Spyware

Top 5 Best Email Providers for Privacy & Security.

This video will explore 5 best Email provider options with their pros & cons. Use these providers to implement better security when you're communicating with end-to-end encryption and/or PGP.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious || LBRY

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Email #Alternatives #Privacy

Official Invidious Instance is shutting down.

Unfortunately the official Invidious instance i.e invidio.us is shutting down on 1st September,2020. Users whom have an account on that instance are requested to export their data before shutdown date, so that they can import everything to another public instance or on self-hosted one.

📖 Read full Dev message: HERE

🌐 List of public instances: HERE

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Top 8 steps to improve your privacy || Guide

This video covers 8 starting steps to improve your online privacy in a chronological order of importance and effectiveness.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

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#Guide #Privacy

How the U.S Government obtains & uses Cellphone location data.

A quick video by WSJ which shows how the U.S. government is using app-generated marketing data based on the movements of millions of cellphone users around the country for some forms of law enforcement.

📖 Read full article: HERE

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Signal - the most secure messenger for everyone

A quick video which provides an brief introduction to Signal Private Messenger with some of its current & upcoming cool features that makes it the most secure messaging app you can install on your phone.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

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#Review #Alternatives #messenger

CalyxOS: The Private & Secure Android ROM for Everyone | Review

CalyxOS aims to bring privacy and security by default to everybody.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

🌐 CalyxOS Website: HERE
🔗 Calyx Institute Website: HERE

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#OS #Privacy #DeGoogle #Alternatives

The problem with banning TikTok

TikTok’s in trouble. But so is the internet as we know it. Today a growing number of countries are pursuing various forms of internet sovereignty — from Russia building a walled-off “intranet,” to India regularly shutting down its internet in areas of social unrest, to some European nations introducing a “right to be forgotten” from search engines.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#TikTok

You have a secret health score and it's as dystopian as it sounds

Insurance companies use big data to predict your health and profitability. Your life choices may easily cost you your coverage or accessibility of treatments.

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YouTube || Invidious

📡 @howtobeprivateonline

China is watching - Hybrid warfare: What data they collect, why cause of concern.

Calling itself a pioneer in using big data for “hybrid warfare” and the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” a Shenzhen-based technology company with links to the Chinese government, and the Chinese Communist Party, is monitoring over 10,000 Indian individuals and organisations in its global database of “foreign targets,” an investigation by The Indian Express has revealed.

📖 Read more: Main_Article & Sub_Article

📹 Watch video via:
YouTube || Invidious

📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#DataBreach #Surveillance #China #HybridWar