Home privacy

The 12 Most Secure Email Services for Better Privacy

You can’t have too much privacy in today’s all-seeing Internet of big corporations, nosey governments, and “14 Eyes.” (If you don’t know what that is, do your research!) You don’t need to be a criminal not to want your emails spied on, but to have a guarantee of that, you’ll need to find an email service with your privacy as its main concern. These services are, thankfully, becoming more common, but even among them it’s important to pick out the ones that wouldn’t be able to spy on your data even if they received a government order to. Here are our favorite high-security, high-privacy email… Read more

Are Private Email Services Worth the Money?

Comparing private paid email services like Proton Mail and free services like Gmail, for those concerned about privacy and disturbed by Google’s giant database of deeply personal information, are private email services worth the money? What Free Email Services Do With Your Email While free email services don’t often “read” your emails, they do spy on your content in a slightly less Orwellian but no less effective way. That’s how apps like Gmail can offer clever integrations like automatically adding flight data to your calendar or providing a tracking link without opening an email from a retailer. So free email services like AOL, Yahoo, and… Read more

How Does DuckDuckGo Protect Your Privacy

One of the concerns that many tech users have is feeling like their privacy is being invaded every time they search for something. Authors who write murder mysteries often joke that they must look like serial killers because of their search history. Maybe those writers should use DuckDuckGo for their searches! Typical search engines such as Google and Bing store your search history on their servers. This history includes which resulting sites you ultimately visited. They don’t just save a list of sites and search terms. These search engines also collect the time and date of the search and your IP address, which browser… Read more

11 Alternatives to Whatsapp that Actually Respect Your Privacy

When social media giant Facebook purchased everyone’s favorite mobile messenger “Whatsapp,” users were promised their data would be private and that they wouldn’t be subject to the shady things that Mark Zuckerberg and crew are known for. That promise is all but gone, leaving many of us seeking alternatives. As time has gone on, more and more privacy has been taken away from Whatsapp users in the name of “analytical data.” Gone are the days when you could trust this app to be totally private and not expect to get data mined for valuable information – information that could easily be sold to advertisers. Pretty… Read more