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Internet safety and privacy

1984

Do you want conversations to be private again ?

Call Dave 07729037667 or fill out the contact form

   You were talking to a friend. You go home & see an advert about the thing you were talking about ! We know they are listing.
   The world and its dog now want your data. They want, and already are -
  • listening to your calls
  • tracking every internet interaction
  • tracking your location
  • searching your photos
  • tracking your purchases
  • eves dropping on private conversations
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Are a walking microphone for the surveillance state ?

    Your phone is their microphone, eyeball & tracker, and if you do not have your phone they can listen through the nearest phone / laptop / iPad etc. Your only hope of keeping anything private is choosing the better privacy options. All this data is fed to the A.I. Data centres AKA Surveillance centres.
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   Imagine your worst nosiest neighbour standing where the nearest phone / laptop / tablet is. Would you still talk so freely ?

​   They know more about you than you know about you.
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   "If its free you are the product" this definitely applies to worst offenders first-
  • Meta - Facebook, Instagram, Watts-app
  • Google - Gmail
  • Microsoft - Hotmail, etc
  • Alexa (you've literally invited the devil)

Oh yes and now the Government want in as well with the Online safety act .
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3 Easy 10min privacy swaps

Not private

Better privacy

WhatsApp or Text.
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Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
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Gmail, Hotmail etc
Signal - Is end to end encrypted. 100M users. They collect the bare minimum of data to make it work. Invite your friends via the app.
Brave Browser - Performs when tested against other browsers.

​Get a free
Proton email address.

Privacy Phones

   GrapheneOS - a replacement privacy Operating System only compatible with Google Pixel phones that looks exactly like Android. Also soon to be in partnership with Motorola. The Graphene Operating System is compatible with most apps, its almost identical to Android. It restricts what apps can have access to, EG It doesn't let your Banking app have access to your location, call list or contacts (unless you want it to). It doesn't let Meta view your internet history.
​   GrapheneOS is PRIVACY BY DEFAULT not multiple settings 15 layers deep easily missed, & not switched back by the next Apple software update.
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Messaging & phone calls

Not private

Better privacy

Regular phone calls
Phoning over Signal is end to end encrypted by default
Texting - Not encrypted at all. The absolute least private way a of communicating do not use this.
WhatsApp -
   They say - Messages encrypted, but this only means from your phone to their servers then from their servers to the recipients phone, but takes all your meta data - your contacts list, calls list, time, duration.
​   Its also what they do not say "WhatsApp  doesn't  read  your messages" doesn't mean Instagram cant read WhatsApp messages. It doesn't mean on phone A.I. cant read your messages.
   WhatsApp - Bought by Facebook / Meta for $12,000,000,000 that's a lot of money for a bit of software they could write for a fraction the cost. What they bought was a network with access to millions of phones. Then slowly eroded the privacy of a once trusted app.
End to end encrypted apps for text & voice calls
Signal  - Has become a popular end to end encrypted go to. ✅
Collects the bare minimum of data to operate.
Free ! Funded via donations.

​Simplex - more secure but little adoption, as its more tricky to set up.

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

 Nord , Proton, Mullvad ​✅
   Many people & companies rely on these for security and confidentiality. They are becoming a vital part of modern day data privacy. Big tech doesn't want you to be private as it would kill their business model. The UK government (pressured by big tech) are trying to ban VPNs. 

Email

If its free you are the product

Not private

Virtually any free email -
Gmail, iCloud, hotmail, Live

Better privacy

   Proton Mail  ✅ Although it is free they make their money up selling other privacy products of the back of the email. EG Proton VPN.
   Proton to Proton would be encrypted end to end (very private). Proton do not extract data from you emails.
   Gmail to Proton can still be read by Google before they send it encrypted to Proton. So I try to use Signal instead where possible.

Photo Storage 

Not Private

   Your iPhone, Google phone etc. (Even if you do not sync to the cloud, Google drive etc)
  All photos will be scanned for CSAM, Faces, Locations, Date. Categorized & rummaged though by A.I. & then you (or people you took picture of) will probably get adverts about what you took pictures of.
   The cloud is just someone else's computer.

Private

   GrapheneOS does not upload your photos to the cloud or scan them. 

Back up your photos

   If your phone breaks you could lose your entire photo collection, so back it up to -
  • your own hard drive or SSD ​✅
  • pay for a privacy focused storage like Proton cloud.

Browsers

Not Private

Private

Google Chrome
​Microsoft Edge
Brave ​✅ (for all computers)
Safari if you are on Apple
Check  out the best privacy browsers

Laptops & Desktops Operating System

Not private

Better privacy

Windows
​Google
Apple
Linux Operating Systems are a open source & free to use. Ubuntu is probably the most accessible for beginners. You do not need a permissioned account to use it. Unlike Apple / Microsoft / Google.
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Word processing & Spread sheets

LibreOffice

Rather than being tied to the Microsoft / Apple ecosystem and have their A.I. examine every document -for your safety-.
​​I recommend LibreOffice a  Free Word processor / Spread sheet


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End To End Encryption

Is the gold standard, no one in the middle can intercept your messages (Unless your or the recipients phone has Client side scanning).

Open Source

Open source code code means anyone can review the code & check it for nasty's.

Client side scanning

   Anything you can see, they can see. Solution GrapheneOS.

Other  Listening Devices 

TV

   They are also now in your TV ! They screen shot what you are watching & if you can voice activate your TV, there's a good chance its ALWAYS listening. ​
If you have any of these devices you have literally sold your soul to the devil. Unplug them and throw in the bin.
  • Alexa
  • Google dot
  • Bixby
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