Does your website website run on renewable energy? The internet consumes a huge amount of energy, estimated at roughly 800TWH of electricity in 2022, which is roughly 2.5 times the total annual electricity consumption of the UK! If that energy does not come from renewable sources it creates carbon emissions which contribute to global warming. …
Google has agreed to pay a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in America for tracking users. The investigation was kicked off by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out by disabling ‘location history’. The settlement proves that we cannot trust what …
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is a $117+ billion industry that operates behind the scenes on websites and apps. It tracks what you are looking at, no matter how private or sensitive, and records where you go. Every day it broadcasts this data about you to a host of companies continuously, enabling them to profile you. As …
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If you’re concerned about the privacy of your email – and the data which your email provider shares with other companies – follow this guide to switch to surveillance-free email. People often feel ‘locked-in’ to their existing email service and worry that switching will mean lost emails or downtime to their email service. To …
What happens when we forget our website passwords and need to reset them? We click the ‘forgot your password?’ link, which triggers the reset process. Almost always, that action sends reset instructions to our emails. But how safe is our information on email platforms – particularly when the service is being offered at zero charge …
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What is open source email? The term ‘open source email’ refers to email systems which use open source software. An email viewer is called an email client, so open source email systems use open source clients to display and compose emails. Is Gmail open source? No, far from it. Gmail is a proprietary email system, …
Have you ever considered how much information Google harvests about you? Google creates ‘shadow profiles’ of every user by tracking, recording and analysing: Google has admitted to scanning your Gmail messages to compile a list of your purchases and who-knows-what-else. Just think of all the confidential financial, medical and other personal data which you have …
If you value your privacy you should stop using Gmail Read More »