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/

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#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

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#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

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#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.

📹 Watch its via:
YouTube || Invidious

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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

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#DataBreach #Surveillance #China #HybridWar

How VPN providers use common myths to trick you using them ft. techlore.

Busting some common myths about the VPN & their providers.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

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#VPN #Surveillance

How to use Whonix | TOR Tutorial Part 2

Whonix is the safest way to be online and surf the web. Learn how to be anonymous and private with Tor Tutorial Part 2.

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

• Part 1 of TOR series: HERE

• Download Whonix: HERE

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#TOR #Guide #Privacy #OS

All the ways your Phone tracks your location.

Your phone (Android or iPhone) is tracking your location even if you disable Location Services, turn on airplane mode, and disable Bluetooth. Learn how to stop it once and for all.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

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#Surveillance #Location #Privacy #Guide

SimpleLogin Review - An OpenSource Email Aliasing service

An Open Source email aliasing service designed to prevent spam while protecting privacy and security.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

• Website: HERE
• Get it via F-Droid Store: HERE

📱Other similar Alternatives:
Annonaddy || Erine email
MailDrop || MailSac
Inbox Kitten || Spamgourmet

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#Email #Alternatives #Privacy #Review

Your phone is LISTENING to you - Ultrasonic cross device tracking

Ultrasonic cross-device tracking uses an inaudible, high-frequency sounds to link your devices − TVs, phones, tablets and PCs − so that advertisers can better track you.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📖 Bat in the mobile. An Study on Ultrasonic Tracking Read more...

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#Surveillance #Ads #IOT #Tracking #Location

How to use Tor on your phone

In this anonymity tutorial, you'll learn how to use Tor on your phone - both Tor Browser and Orbot on Android, and Onion Browser on iOS.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

🌐 Get TOR for:
• Android via: Website || F-Droid || Play Store
• iOS via: Apple Store

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#TOR #Privacy #Guide #Browser #VPN

The BEST FOSS iOS Apps

Finding FOSS apps for your Non-Open iOS is an tedious task. Here is an short list of open source apps for iOS which might meet your daily requirements.

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📱Recommended FOSS apps for iOS:
• Messaging
Signal || Jami || Element || Threema
• Web Browser
DDG Browser || SnowHaze || Onion Browser
• Password Manager
Bitwarden || Keepassium || StrongBox
• Email
Tutanota || ProtonMail || SimpleLogin
• DNS/Firewall
LockDown || DNS Cloak
• 2FA Apps
Tofu || Authenticator
• Video/Audio conferencing
Jami || Element || Jitsi || Mumble

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#iOS #Alternatives #Privacy #FOSS

You should delete your WhatsApp ASAP

WhatsApp has always been a privacy nightmare. Use Signal and Matrix if you care about your privacy and security!

📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious

📱Recommended Alternatives:
Signal || Element (Matrix) || Jami || Briar || Threema

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#WhatsApp #Facebook #Messenger #Alternatives #Privacy

How to watch YouTube without using YouTube App/Website.

Bypass Google, block ads & trackers and circumvent age restriction. NewPipe is the most free and private way of watching YouTube Videos on Android. There are other privacy respecting clients for Desktop also.

📹 Watch this video via:
Invidious || BitChute || CloudTube

• Get NewPipe App via
Website || NewPipe F-Droid Repo

• Desktop Alternatives
FreeTube || MiniTube || YouTube Viewer

• Website Frontend
Yotter || Invidious || CloudTube

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#YouTube #Alternatives #AI #Ads #Privacy