Content Update #134

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Good Practices:

• Updated the Secure communication chapter to reflect the fact that WhatsApp now enables group calls with up to 8 people (all participants must be running the latest version of the app for this to work), to add a link to more info on how to use Group FaceTime, and to add mention that the ProtonMail apps are now open source.
• Minor update to the VPN chapter to add mention that the ProtonVPN apps are open source and undergo indipendent security audits on an ongoing basis, and to remove mention of the Mozilla endorsement ProtonVPN received a while ago.

Content Update #133

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Good Practices:

• Updated the unsecured website indicator image linked from the HTTPS chapter.

Resources:

• Items are now sorted into categories, to make navigating them easier.
• Improved and updated a few things here and there.

Tools:

• Added a link to the Standard Notes Knowledge Base to the Standard Notes paragraph.
• Minor fixes and improvements throughout the page.

Content Update #132

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Tools:

• Added info about all ProtonMail apps now being open source to the ProtonMail paragraph.
• Added link to the introductory blog post to the Click paragraph.
• Updated item decriptions where needed.
• Added article sources more consistently throughout the page.
• Fixed various links.
• Removed PhishProtect Beta (Phish.AI)
• Removed InSpectre (GRC)
• Removed Becoming Anonymous (Adam Hadar)
• Removed the Facebook’s security incident tools paragraph
• Other fixes.

Content Update #131

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Good Practices:

• Improved and expanded the Secure communication chapter with information concerning group calls and video conferences.

Quick Guides:

• Added a new Video conferences and groups calls section to the Quick Alternatives Guide.

Tools:

• Added Jitsi Meet to the Private conversations and meetings section.
• Added Tails to the Traffic and identity protection section.
• Improved naming of a few categories.
• Removed 10 Minute Mail.

Content Update #130

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Good Practices:

• Minor change to the page intro.

About:

• Introduced an additional contact method via Wickr. As you have probably noticed Signal is currently the only messaging app I feel comfortable recommending. I’m making use of Wickr in this case because it seems pretty secure, reasonably privacy-preserving, and it allows me to provide a communication channel other than email without having to disclose my phone number.

Downloads:

• It is now possible to verify the integrity of the Precisely Private eBook and PDF by comparing the cryprographic hashes (SHA-256) available for each file.

General:

• New and improved project tagline.
• New header and eBook cover image, and new logo colour: Out with the green, in with the red!
• Fixed typos all over the place in both English and Italian versions of the project.

Content Update #129

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Good Practices:

• Minor changes to the order in which chapters are displayed.

Tools:

• Added a link to ProtonMail’s Transparency Report to the ProtonMail paragraph.

Audio and Video:

• Added Why Face Surveillance Must Be Banned (Kade Crockford – TEDx)
• Added Privacy, Technology, and Power (Ari Ezra Waldman – CITP Princeton)

Articles:

• Added How to Quit Gmail and Reclaim Your Privacy (Jill Duffy – PCMag UK)

Resources:

• Added a link to the free and unredacted chinese version of Permanent Record to the Edward Snowden paragraph.
• Added a link to Mozilla’s Data Detox series of posts/videos to the Mozilla paragraph.

Blog:

• Introduced the new Privacy Discourse series, as you may have noticed.
• Improved how posts are divided into categories. The following categories are now in use: The Privacy Discourse, content updates, project announcements, and other posts.
• Introduced a new naming scheme for content updates (this has also been applied retroactively to previous posts).

About:

• Added a new As featured in… section.

Menu:

• Added mention of the Newsletter page (previously known as the Email updates page) directly to the website menu.
• Removed the Link in Bio Page (previously known as the News page) from the website menu. The page will continue to be available via my Instagram profile.

General:

• A new Link in Bio Archive page replaces the old News Archive page.
• Added a brand new Sitemap page.

Onion Service:

• Added links to the Blog and Newsletter pages to the website menu.

Content Update #128

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Good Practices:

• Replaced the term “information age” with the more appropriate “age of surveillance” in the page intro.
• Improved the Privacy settings and policies chapter by adding a link to the new Your Off-Facebook Activity page and by expanding the section about virtual assistants’ privacy settings.
• Greatly expanded (and basically re-written) the Data backups chapter.