Someone's Always Watching

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The CEO of the web privacy company AnchorFree, David Gorodyansky talks with USA Today Tech about how to keep data safe online. Ensure that you are protected in your digital interactions. 

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Top Five Ways to Keep Your Privacy Online

The Geek Tricks features Edward Snowden's advice on online privacy. 

1. Encryption for Communications 

Using apps that encrypt your texts and phone calls can help to protect your conversations 

2. Two-Factor Authentications

Many sites offer greater protection for your data where you must enter a code sent via text. Hackers attempting to get into your account will be stopped more often as they are unable to bypass the code. Consider using it for your Gmail, Facebook, PayPal, or iCloud. 

3. Web Browsing Security

Snowden recommends using a network such as Tor (The Onion Router) that throws your information around in a network resulting in anonymity.  

4. Encryption of your Device

You don’t want to chance your data being available to hackers if your laptop is stolen! There are built in tools to encrypt your computer. Macs have FileVault and Windows have BitLocker. Better safe than sorry! 

5. Create Better Passwords!

More unique and strange your passwords are much more protective than “Password” or “123456″. Instead of a single word, include phrases with non-dictionary words. On Last Week Tonight, he gave an example password of “MargetThatcheris110%SEXY” 

You should have:

Capital Letters

Lowercase Letters

Numbers

Symbols

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Today, what many of us would love to believe is that the Internet is a private place; it's not. And with every click of the mouse and every touch of the screen, we are like Hansel and Gretel leaving breadcrumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods. We are leaving our birthdays, our places of residence, our interests and preferences, our relationships, our financial histories, and on and on it goes... Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. Our voices matter and our actions matter even more.

Gary Kovacs 

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Privacy is not only about protecting your private data, according to Daniel Solove of Teach Privacy, it is a form of respect that ensures the freedom to live without fear someone is watching over your shoulder. Privacy holds an enormous amount of power as it relates to online activity, behavior, identity theft, surveillance and more. 

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Dilemmas of the Internet age: privacy vs. security

A look at the dilemmas of the internet age in a world of smart phones and smart cars where the internet follows you wherever you go.

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We need to find a way to protect the rights that we ourselves inherited for the next generation. If we don’t, today we’re standing at a fork in the road that divides between an open society and a controlled system.

Edward Snowden “Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy”

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Balancing Privacy and Security 

John Oliver discusses how little the American public know and care about government surveillance, the NSA’s actions, and the USA PATRIOT Act. 

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Does Privacy Trump Security?

Private data shouldn't be compromised unless there is a situation greatly risking nation security. The American people should be able to rely on the government to keep private things personal. Americans should be able to trust they are safe with the protection of national security as well as the confidentiality of their own personal data. 

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Everybody doesn’t need to know everything about us. Your friend doesn’t need to know what pharmacy you go to. Facebook doesn’t need to know your password security questions. You don’t need to have your mother’s maiden name on your Facebook page, if that’s what you use for recovering your password on Gmail. The idea here is that sharing is OK, but it should always be voluntary. It should be thoughtful, it should be things that are mutually beneficial to people that you’re sharing with, and these aren’t things that are simply taken from you.

 Edward Snowden “Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy”

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Pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist Glenn Greenwald explains how even if you don’t have anything to hide, privacy is still a vital topic you should value and protect. 

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WikiLeaks: The CIA is using popular TVs, smartphones and cars to spy on their owners

The CIA apparently can't crack encrypted messages. But it can crack devices.

As we become a society more and more dependent on technology, do we invite unseen eyes into our homes and private lives?

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What is Vault 7 and Why YOU Should Care 

WikiLeaks reveals privacy leaks from the NSA