Everything You Share Has a Return Address
Stripping the hidden data from a photo is worth doing, and it is only half the job. The picture itself is evidence, and AI can now read it in seconds.
Topic
Digital Privacy
A collection of 36 issues
The New Social Security Numbers
Your email, phone, and payment card became universal identity keys the same way the SSN did, and the databases that verify you were built on data that already leaked
Digital Privacy Planner
Privacy advice arrives as a list of a hundred things to do, and a list is exactly the wrong shape for the job
The Five Principles of Digital Privacy
Every day, in a thousand small trades, you and everyone around you exchange data for convenience
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
The steps that protect a company and the steps that protect a person are the same steps. Teach them as protecting the company and people comply. Teach them as protecting the person and people change. The second is also how you actually protect the company
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.