Hosting locally is the most private way to use AI

Oh… nevermind.

You can use AI tools without needing to compromise your privacy.

Not About Living Like a Hermit.

And why you should too.

Privacy enjoys company.

HIPAA does not protect your privacy.

Understanding the shifting baselines of privacy.

Convincing people to switch to more private messengers can be hard, but these tricks can help.

And it's a fight for our future.

It depends.

Yes, stores are using this to track you.

“PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it. That’s why I wrote it.”

Encrypted containers: Overkill, or essential?

Our phones are super sensitive devices. They not only contain private photos and messages, but often we have things like banking apps on them. It’s important that we keep them safe by making sure we lock them with a PIN. But how long should your PIN be?

Modern cars are horrendous data collection machines. They listen to you, film you, ingest the contacts and photos from your phone, and share this information with countless third parties. Some car companies even collect information about your sexual activity as per their privacy policies.

A giant shift has happened over the past 20 years, where our cars became smart devices with hundreds of computers collecting and analyzing data about your activities. What can we do about it?

We no longer have financial privacy -- we have the ILLUSION of privacy.

We have slowly built a sprawling system of unchecked financial surveillance, and it’s time to question whether this is the world we want to live in.

Our computer constantly whispers secrets out to the internet about what we do on the device. This continuous transmission of data from our computer to remote servers happens silently, often without our awareness or explicit consent. The privacy leak is often far more extensive than most of us realize.

Fortunately there are things we can do to stop it from happening.