Here is just a short article from The Guardian, that highlights some of the privacy we all give up. In this case though it benefited law enforcement who caught a wanted criminal who had been on the run using Google Street View. Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google …
Your privacy tracked
You must remember that companies such as Alphabet and Meta, apparently give away services for free and so consequently have huge use bases for their apps. However the cost to you is usually some information about your usage, which they can then monetise, because it takes a lot of money …
Do you want to disappear from the internet?
To be honest that is probably not possible – but Wired has six ways to move towards that goal and reduce your digital footprint. 6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet | WIRED UK I worked my way through the steps in the article.
There is a new UK Information Commissioner – John Edwards
Here is the press release from the ICO: New UK Information Commissioner begins term | ICO Here is his CV: Pre-appointment hearing for Information Commissioner – Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee – House of Commons (parliament.uk) Image credit: By PrivacyMaven – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106557848)
DuckDuckGo – you probably have not heard of this search engine
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is interested in your privacy and has designed its web browser to protect it and keep you anonymous. Not that it appears many of us out here in internet land care about our privacy – Google builds dossiers about us from out use of …
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