DECIPHER

A lot of websites, since the initial enrolment of the GDPR still don’t respect users’ privacy usually it says “We care about your privacy” followed by several hindered vendors you have to manually turn of when they know full well if they did care about your privacy, they would just not have it because they wouldn’t need to BECAUSE they respect your privacy any website asking otherwise is simply full of sh*t.

We’ve come a long way since the start of the internet and a lot of progress has been made in the past 3 years in terms of data protection which hold companies accountable for their actions €20 million or 4% of their annual income is a start but the problem is that a lot of these companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook to name a few are too big to fail with their pockets too deep; the fines need to be higher.

Don't do it once and forget to do it next time, continually keep your system up-to-date. You can turn on auto-update but sometimes it will get missed or skipped so try a weekly check as well.

Today is May 15th, the day when WhatsApp’s (Facebook’s) new Privacy Policy comes into affect which means although WhatsApp is supposedly End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) despite being closed source to Facebook and the Chiefs.

Research suggests Alexa is listening to your keyboard taps which essentially makes it key-logging hardware with the software pair.

Today is May 15th, the day when WhatsApp’s (Facebook’s) new Privacy Policy comes into affect which means although WhatsApp is supposedly End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) despite being closed source to Facebook and the Chiefs.

End-to-end encrypted data is encrypted and decrypted only at the “end points”. This means that service providers in the middle don't have access to the keys, and therefore can't read your data.

The problem being for many thing like social media and email recovery you’ll need your phone number to recover your account.

People should report suspicious emails and texts by forwarding to report@phishing.gov.uk and 7726 respectively.

So that hackers cannot spam you if/when there’s a data breach. You can buy them without ID from the phone shop or have them sent directly to your address but the supplier could still have a supply-chain attack.