Crowd-Sourced Digital Privacy: PrivacyGuides.org

1 year ago
68

Episode 62 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Crowd-Sourced Digital Privacy: PrivacyGuides.org

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Jonah Aragon and Niek de Wilde of PrivacyGuides.org. They cover a variety of digital privacy topics including making use of frontends, the demise of Firefox, the superiority of native applications, self-hosting, RSS readers, and backing up our computers.

Guest Links
https://www.privacyguides.org

WATCHMAN PRIVACY
https://watchmanprivacy.com (Yes: I offer consulting)
https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Timeline

0:00 – Introduction
3:51 – How should we evaluate digital privacy services?
4:33 – How important is a company’s stance on privacy (example: VPN)?
6:12 – How to make Tor a bigger part of our lives
8:49 – Does Tor have a backdoor?
10:46 – Using frontends for social media privacy
12:50 – Recommended browser, and are we heading toward the death of Mozilla Firefox browser?
16:11 – Using native applications vs browser versions of services
18:45 – What are privacy seekers exposing that they don’t appreciate as much as they should?
20:08 – Is self-hosting the answer?
23:22 – News aggregators aka RSS readers
26:01 – Process for backing up data
27:34 – Final thoughts

Loading comments...