Privacy Basics guides
Where to start: threat modeling, the core privacy concepts, and your first moves away from Big Tech.
The Relaunch: A Faster Way to Escape Big Tech
PrivacyTools.io is rebuilt: start with the app you want to escape, get a vetted private alternative, and meet VERNAM, our new in-browser file encryptor.
Jun 19, 2026
Phone and Laptop Seizures at Airports and Borders - Privacy Travel Guide
The world and its borders are slowly opening up after strict Covid lockdowns, and people are looking forward to travelling again. While this is great and f
Apr 15, 2025
7 Publicly Known LastPass Security Breaches since 2011
The security team of the popular password manager LastPass can't seem to catch a break. This is the second security breach this year, and they are connecte
2022
Data Breach Prevention to Protect Your Privacy
Data breaches in a nutshell: Data breaches happen every day. It has become more important than ever to understand what a data breach is, how it happens, an
2022
Is the Five Eyes Alliance a Threat to Your Privacy?
The Five Eyes is an international intelligence-sharing alliance. The Five Eyes countries are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the Un
2022
Privacy, Cybersecurity and Anonymity - Difference Explained
Privacy, cybersecurity and anonymity are all different concepts that are often used interchangeably. Understanding the difference between these three is cr
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Whistleblower Guide: How Privacy Tools Can Protect You From Retaliation
Picture this: You’re in a position where you want to expose wrongdoing but you’re afraid of retaliation. Whether it’s a company or a government, someone is
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Emergency Preparedness: A Plan for Worst Case Scenarios
If we were to place security, privacy, and anonymity onto a sliding scale from 1-100, nobody is going to be able to achieve all 100s. It is just not feasib
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A Starting Place for Business and Tech Geeks
I often times see people whom are clearly business people doing business related things with customers, clients, and the like in very public places in very
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Defining Your Threat-Model
For starters, a threat-model could be defined as how an individual needs to be protected based on things like:
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Deleting and Decluttering Data to Improve Privacy
After you have put all of the above pages to good use, you are going to be left with a lot of unneeded data. This data could include cache information, tem
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How is the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Related to Your Privacy?
The “5 Eyes” countries refer to 5 countries United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand that have an intelligence agreement known
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Keeping Personal Information Out and Using an Alias to Hide Your Real Identity
If you are reading this but have no need for anonymity and really can’t see where it would fit into your Internet life, I at least hope you can imagine a s
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Once it is out on the Internet, it's impossible to take it back or erase for good
So once you have the basics of how the Internet can work with you to keep you safe, it is vital that you determine what information you are putting out the
2022The Crypto Paper
The Crypto Paper by @CryptoSeb: a beginner-to-advanced privacy, security and anonymity primer, archived and kept web-friendly on PrivacyTools.io.
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The difference between Privacy, Security and Anonymity explained
What is Privacy? Wikipedia describes privacy as “the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby
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