The Five Principles of Digital Privacy
Every day, in a thousand small trades, you and everyone around you exchange data for convenience
Topic
Digital Privacy
A collection of 33 issues
You Told It Everything
What a free chatbot therapist and a company that paid teenagers twenty dollars for their whole phone reveal about the trade you make every time something is free.
Privacy Meets Security
The digital world has allowed us to connect globally while making geographic separation matter very little. This has changed the world and allowed for new and amazing opportunities.
The Privacy Line
Most people cannot say what they consider private until someone makes them write it down. Draw that line on paper first, and every later decision about what to share gets a lot less improvised.
Cyber Security VS Digital Privacy
Your employer's security program has a scope, and you are not inside it. The controls protecting the network sweep up your data as a side effect, which leaves an awkward question about who is actually looking out for you.
Why Personal Privacy Matters to Corporations
Nobody finishes annual security training feeling motivated. But people will work to protect themselves — and the habits that do it happen to harden the employer too. An argument for pointing training at the person, not the org chart.
Digital Privacy - It matters
Free services are not free; the price is quoted in data you never see itemized. What ubiquitous technical surveillance actually collects on an ordinary day, and where you still hold leverage over it.
SparkPress - Privacy and Security News
A snapshot of what privacy news looked like in October 2023, back when passkeys were still a novelty and the first White House order on AI had just landed. Short, dated, and left exactly as it was published.
Identity Unmasked: The Double-Edged Sword of Biometrics
A password can be changed after a breach. A fingerprint, an iris, a palm vein pattern cannot. That asymmetry is what makes biometrics the most convenient login you will ever use and the most permanent thing you can hand over.
The Ultimate Anti-Tracking Guide for 2023 by Ghostery
Ghostery wrote a tracking primer worth the read; this is the condensed version. Most useful for the line it draws between tracking that makes a site work and tracking that follows you off it.