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First Step Toward Privacy: Design Your Own Threat Model

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

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Beyond Privacy Laws, Products Designed for Privacy

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,

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Privacy at Home

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

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How to Choose the Right Messenger

One of the most common questions users have when it comes to privacy is about messaging services. It seems almost all of them mention some level of privacy or encryption to entice the

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Cutting the Wire

It has recently come to the attention of the ThinkPrivacy and PrivacyTools teams that Wire, the popular end-to-end encryption messaging platform had been sold or moved to a US company. After a week

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Search Engines

When searching the web, Google isn’t the only game in town. Below you will find privacy respecting search engines that don’t track you or sell your information to advertisers. Search the web with

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Web Browsers

While Google Chrome may dominate today’s browser market, it’s also tracking and monetizing your every move. We don’t recommend anyone use Chrome, and instead, look to some of the options below.

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Messaging

Sending unecrypted messages can be a privacy and security nightmare. SMS messages can be intercepted, and companies such as Facebook own WhatsApp, putting their privacy claims into serious question. So when it comes

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Email Providers

Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook seem to dominate the email world, but none of them take your privacy seriously. Gmail gives third parties access to information inside your account and they even have the

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VPN

Whether using the free wifi at the local cafe or traveling abroad, a VPN can help protect your computer from those hoping to violate your privacy or access your data. A VPN, or

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Service recommendations

Password Managers

Do yourself a favor, never use the same password twice. Even better, you shouldn’t even know what your password is. This is where a password manager comes in. You don’t have to remember

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Service recommendations

Two-Factor Authentication

A password isn’t enough and even the most unique password can be leaked and discovered by bad actors. Two-factor authentication (2FA) offers another level of protection by using an app to deliver you

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Cloud Storage & Sync

Cloud storage is a convenient way to keep files synced to all of your devices, but not all companies respect that these are your files. Dropbox, Google, and others can terminate your account

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File Sharing

Share files the secure way, with services that not only respect your privacy but offer end-to-end encryption.

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Notes & Office

Taking notes, writing documents, or creating a presentation shouldn’t cost you your privacy, and with the apps and services below, they wont.

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