In 2013, Edward Snowden, a contractor with the NSA, leaked documents to journalists that exposed the United States mass surveillance program of Americans’ telephone records. When Snowden leaked the documents, he fled immediately

It seems every few years in the US the conversation about electronic voting and voter hacking come into the spotlight and voters and news pundits discuss whether voters should be using voting machines

After the passing of the Patriot Act in 2001, we have seen the erosion of privacy rights and civil liberties in the United States. Every few years though, parts of the act are

As the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, life for some around the world is beginning to look a little more like it did before, except with some more distancing, and more people wearing masks.

One of the most popular questions I get at ThinkPrivacy is when to use certain tools and when not to use them. Often times, the questions turn out to be an honest misunderstanding

When it comes to internet privacy, there is one tool which gives many internet users a false sense of security out of the box, and that’s a VPN. I recently wrote about how

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One of the most misunderstood features on most modern browsers is Private Mode, or sometimes called Incognito mode. When I am offering advice on measures people can take in their privacy such as

People around the world are now starting to realize working from home may be the new “normal” for some time to come. While many have found this to be relaxing, easier, and perhaps

With so many search engines already on the market, and privacy gaining in popularity, you may not be surprised to hear about how many search engines ask to be included on my site

Many of us who are privacy minded take many steps to protect our data online. You add tracking blockers to our browsers, you delete our cookies, and you use privacy respecting email addresses

As the creator of ThinkPrivacy, I often get asked why we list certain options, or don’t list others. It’s common for me to hear from a visitor that I shouldn’t recommend certain closed-source

Over the last few years, the European Union, and US states like California have done a good job of passing consumer privacy laws, the GDPR and CCPA respectively. While neither law is perfect,

As privacy advocates, we often discuss what steps we take to personally secure our lives and devices yet rarely do we talk about the steps we take to do the same for those

Over the course of 2020, ThinkPrivacy.io will transition to ThinkPrivacy.ch. In the process, we have also secured ThinkPrivacy.net. The .net and .io domains will immediatly begin forwarding to .ch.