internet privacy Tag Archive
Cyber Monday Shopping Tips – Staying Safe While Online Shopping
This holiday season, stay protected from holiday shopping scams with Blur. Blur helps shoppers remain private online by providing ‘Masked’ information whenever companies are asking for personal information. Over 40% of holiday shoppers will make most of their purchases online this season, according to TransUnion. The average American will spend hundreds of dollars this year […]
Security in the Roaring 2020s
Bruce Schneier’s recent op-ed in the New York Times [“Internet Hacking is About to Get Much Worse”] argues that hacking threats have overwhelmed traditional IT security and that governments must intervene to fix market failure. His assessment of the problem is only arguably-inaccurate, but his proposed solution is almost certainly wrong. We do need […]
Google Tracking Mastercard Purchases
For the past year, Google and Mastercard had a “secret deal” allowing Google tracking of spending habits of two billion Mastercard card-holders. Using Blur can protect you from tracking, online and off. The deal gives Google “an unprecedented asset for measuring retail spending”, as they compete with sites like Amazon. Mastercards were used in roughly […]
How to delete things from the internet: a guide to doing the impossible
You want to delete something from the Internet: maybe it’s an article, a picture, a blog post, an account, or a video. It’s not always easy, but it can be done. So, here’s how to delete things from the internet. We’ve spent years deleting people’s info from data broker websites with our product, DeleteMe, and […]
Privacy xkcd: what’s your personality type?
People say that there’s a relevant xkcd for everything in life. The webcomic, written by Randall Munroe, has even tackled privacy: None of these privacy personality types really apply to us: we’d be more like “Optimistic Realists.” We see that privacy is under serious threat, but we think it’s a problem that technology can fix. Not […]
