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End of honest conversations?

11 Thursday Jul 2019

Posted by Dagny Gromer in online privacy, privacy

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But the death of frank speaking is, speaking frankly, a disaster. A state, a business, even a household, cannot operate without private conversations. The carefully measured words you choose to describe a problem co-worker in an all-staff email are not the same as the harsh language you save for the one-on-one with your line manager.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/can-we-talk-in-confidence-the-death-of-candour-in-the-age-of-surveillance?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA3MTE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

I am careful about online privacy for personal issues. I blog, as you who are reading my blog know, but I share what I want to. And don’t share what I want to keep private. I have location services turned off on my iPhone. I use Facebook in a separate browser. I have Ghostery installed in Safari and Chrome, and I use the Brave privacy enhanced browser quite a bit. I would never own an Android phone. I use an Apple Macintosh, not Windows.

I think this is a loss for us as humans.

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Email tracking and how to stop it

08 Monday Jul 2019

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers, privacy

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link: https://mashable.com/article/how-to-block-email-pixel-tracking/

Here’s something you might want to think about next time you check your email: chances are, at least some of your messages are being tracked.

From how many times you open a message, the time of day, and even what city you’re in, the very act of reading an email can send a surprising amount of data back to the sender, even if you never respond. 

Beware the internet of things

14 Monday Jan 2019

Posted by Dagny Gromer in privacy

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internet of things, online privacy

Ring internet connected door bell gives their employees unlimited access to spy on customers. No surprise here. Who lets this crap into their homes??

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/283665-amazons-ring-security-camera-let-employees-spy-on-customers

GoDuckGo, a non-tracking search engine, is blocked in China

22 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by Dagny Gromer in internet, privacy

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goduckgo, google, search engine

http://searchengineland.com/china-blocks-duckduckgo-privacy-search-engine-203855

Another good reason to use GoDuckGo, a privacy oriented search engine. It’s my default search tool. Highly recommended. Does anyone trust Google anymore?

 

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