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Poll: How do you protect your privacy?
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#2I 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.
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#3I 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...
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#4I created HNCharts to visualize Hacker News polls. The results for this poll can be viewed as a chart at http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5793326
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#5That 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 about companies like Google/Apple/Microsoft. The risk involved in invading someone's privacy is definitely not nearly the worth of them getting caught and all the bad press. The ad companies and the government however I don't trust. Because they don't have a face to save. Someone gets busted, they shut down/resign and life goes on.
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#6I 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...
Privacy is not just about what is public. A hidden camera in your bathroom is an invasion of your privacy regardless of whether the videos are made public. Social networking sites are littering the web with web bugs, tracking cookies, and other invasive methods of recording more than you explicitly share with them -- how is that not an invasion of privacy?
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#7Nothing (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 over these interactions over the tiny chance they may come back to eventually haunt me.
I chose to live in the now and not let myself be gripped by paranoia of what might be.
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#8That 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…
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#9I disable javascript. It's the only way to fully prevent fingerprinting[1]. Unfortunately, many web developers don't know how to write websites in plain HTML, or they want to use AJAX without any graceful fallback.
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#10I 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 )