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Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by fuzzywalrus »

geekam wrote: post #2

I use a VPN - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ and I have been meaning to ask folks here if they have experience with the VPN service or is there anyone better out there. They claim that they do not log at all.

I use PrivateInternetAccess as well, they make it pretty easy and I'm able to log multiple boxes on at once (my HTPC, laptop, Mac Pro) without them complaining.

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...

I also stack on Little Snitch, Adblock and Facebook Block (to stop Facebook from loading its iframes on sites that are not facebook).

Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by gngeal »

Achshar wrote: post #5

That list makes me uncomfortable. I can't imagine doing all of it unless I was some criminal. But to each his own I guess because I don't really care what government or add company person is looking at me browsing reddit or programing forums. So nothing to hide, too much trouble and I don't care about my privacy. Now if I really wanted to hide my activities, I would be using tor BTW. Plus I am a little optimistic abo…

That list makes me uncomfortable. I can't imagine doing all of it unless I was some criminal.

Alternatively, you could be a schizoid with paranoid tendencies. :-)

Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by mtct »

Usually nothing, I only block third party cookies and write under a pseudonyms.

But I'm always conscious on the implication of what I do on internet so if needed I know how to use appropriate tools for protect my privacy.

Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by jamesaguilar »

ljd wrote: post #13
jschuur wrote: post #7

Nothing (because none of these are necessary for the kind of privacy I practice). I think about what I post to what social network and some things I just don't post at all. I think I still have privacy. I have private conversations with people via Skype, IM, Facebook, email. Is it possible that at some point those leak? Perhaps. It's just not likely enough that I chose to worry about it. I value the benefits I get ov…

What you might not be considering are the details between the lines. You might not post private information to Facebook but when and how often you post can tell someone more than you would casually share with a stranger like what your sleeping habits are or if you are at a special event (determined by the lack of generated events during a normally scheduled period of activity for you). After a while, even the non-int…

> probably not something you want to share with advertisers.

Why not? How would you be in any way worse off because an advertiser knows this?

Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by eclipxe »

ljd wrote: post #13
jschuur wrote: post #7

Nothing (because none of these are necessary for the kind of privacy I practice). I think about what I post to what social network and some things I just don't post at all. I think I still have privacy. I have private conversations with people via Skype, IM, Facebook, email. Is it possible that at some point those leak? Perhaps. It's just not likely enough that I chose to worry about it. I value the benefits I get ov…

What you might not be considering are the details between the lines. You might not post private information to Facebook but when and how often you post can tell someone more than you would casually share with a stranger like what your sleeping habits are or if you are at a special event (determined by the lack of generated events during a normally scheduled period of activity for you). After a while, even the non-int…

Why not? Honestly, if these services can figure me out based on my data, then provide me with their recommendations based on that, why is that not a good thing?

Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by [deleted] »

ljd wrote: post #13
jschuur wrote: post #7

Nothing (because none of these are necessary for the kind of privacy I practice). I think about what I post to what social network and some things I just don't post at all. I think I still have privacy. I have private conversations with people via Skype, IM, Facebook, email. Is it possible that at some point those leak? Perhaps. It's just not likely enough that I chose to worry about it. I value the benefits I get ov…

What you might not be considering are the details between the lines. You might not post private information to Facebook but when and how often you post can tell someone more than you would casually share with a stranger like what your sleeping habits are or if you are at a special event (determined by the lack of generated events during a normally scheduled period of activity for you). After a while, even the non-int…

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Re: Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

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Post by eclipxe »

ivarv wrote: post #10
Shish2k wrote: post #3

I quite happily use social media etc for all the things I want to be public; if there's something that I don't want to be public, I don't put it on the internet at all...

Keep in mind that it is possible to infer / derive a lot of meaningful data about you from a relatively small sample size. From political leanings via social networks (personal associations are very strong data points) to samples of your personal writing style (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry )

And why is this bad?
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