Privacy Now: How to lock down and delete threats to your online information'Privacy now is like security in the days of Windows XP. No one cared about it until everyone cared about it.'
Privacy, like security, is continuously at war with convenience. The internet and app stores are filled with "free" products that will do amazing things for your productivity and entertainment, all in exchange for as much of your private, personal data as they can convince you to give them. That includes scanning your messages, tracking your location, uploading your contacts, copying all your photos, mapping all your relationships, and otherwise building as complete a model for you and your life as possible.
You might think that's great. You have nothing to hide so if Facebook or Google or government agencies or even casual observers know everything about you, who cares? You're getting a ton of valuable stuff essentially at no cost to you. If that's you, just keep doing you.
Or, you might think, you can always make more money but you can never get your private messages ...
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Privacy Now: How to lock down and delete threats to your online information
