Blogs The New ThinkPrivacy Welcome to the new ThinkPrivacy. We’ve decided to stick around, but needed to make some changes.
Blogs How to make your mobile device more secure While a lot of focus on mobile security and privacy has been placed on activists around the world attending protests, you don’t have to be a social or political activist to care about
Blogs Privacy vs Security – What’s the difference? For many, privacy and security seem to be words that are interchangeable. We hear users discuss how they love a certain product or service because of the security it provides, and just assume
Blogs Top 5 steps to make privacy your default Working in tech, I get a lot of new devices and for anyone who gets a new phone, tablet, or computer, you know they don’t generally come privacy friendly right out of the
Blogs How 9/11 continues to affect our privacy rights As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, many are reflecting on what has changed not only in the US but around the world since that
Blogs Don’t feed the beast – outsmarting algorithms One of the biggest challenges we have when thinking about privacy online is that just about every service we use asks for personal information. Banking, car payments, managing your health care account. That
Blogs How Startpage keeps your search secure with SSL When it comes to privacy respecting software and services from search engines, to email, and even VPNs, the discussion focuses heavily on logging, and what the provider stores about you, the user. And
Blogs Corporate Surveillance: How Big Tech tracks your online activity When internet privacy is discussed, a lot of people claim they don’t worry about it because they have nothing to hide. There are a few problems with this argument, and I won’t unpack
Blogs Privacy on social media – is that possible? If someone asked me how to be more private on Instagram, you’d probably tell them to delete it. They are owned by Facebook after all, so being private on Facebook is like asking
Blogs Switching to Startpage private search engine As privacy concerns become more mainstream changing search engines is becoming more popular. Yet, changing your search engine may not be as obvious as one may think, especially given that big tech, non-private
Blogs Interview with System1’s Co-Founder and CEO Michael Blend Recently I had the opportunity to chat with System1’s CEO Michael Blend to discuss the 2019 partnership with the privacy respecting search engine Startpage.
Blogs Simple steps to follow in order to ensure greater personal internet privacy Recently, the privacy search engine Startpage released a study finding that 75% of Americans stated they are very concerned about online privacy. That’s a lot of people, and a great sign for the
Blogs How Startpage’s private search engine protects your personal data For many people who have decided to switch from a non-privacy respecting search engine to one that respects your privacy such as Startpage, many questions still remain about just how private those searches
Blogs Checking for HTTPS to make sure a website is secure With the pandemic still growing around the world, it will be little surprise that online shopping will likely see one of its biggest years ever. However, with more shopping being done online comes
Blogs 5 online shopping tips to keep your financial data secure Safely shopping online does go beyond simply ensuring your payment information is sent securely. If we’ve learned anything in the last decade, it’s that even the largest companies on the planet are vulnerable