Examples may include using tor as your daily browser, using VPNs when you can’t use tor etc.
I’m curious to have some philisophical discussion over if there are actually any visible benefits to being private while online…
Examples may include using tor as your daily browser, using VPNs when you can’t use tor etc.
I’m curious to have some philisophical discussion over if there are actually any visible benefits to being private while online…
You can search my full legal (dead)name online and find absolutely nothing. Not a single picture, mention, or anything even remotely close or even in the same vicinity as me.
Obviously that’s not a benefit to everyone but it is to me and has been achieved by maintaining some level of scrutiny over the information I make available.
I envy you. My name is too unique and some papers published with my name (between others) make me really visible.
I have a fairly generic full name. Searching me online comes up with everything else but anything actually about myself. So many people of all ages have my name I was pretty surprised.
Moreover, I kept myself off of Facebook and most social media including all those meetup/dating/influencer/vlogging apps.
However, a few friends, colleagues and familly may have a few inadvertent cameos of me in their photos/videos. Which I do not mind, as they are unavoidable in day to day life.
Overall, I have taken mesures to leave as much of a messy digital footprint I can with things totally unrelated to me, my preferences and my knowledge.
We can’t really have complete and true privacy in our modern age with big data, “vacuum” everything/anything and decrypt later, deep learning and multi-domain tracking/inference. We can at least consciously (by choosing more privacy aware services, or by choosing to not give any/all our info) and unconsciously (through automation, scheduling of unrelated “activity” generation and mixing of different activities with others on the same profile or tracking token) leave a noisy footprint of ourselves and others.