Harrison and Cindy chat with the Lincoln County Library District's hardworking cataloger/integrated library system (ILS) administrator, Christopher Davis, to learn about internet privacy and boldly imbibe a baffling beverage.
Below is Christopher's fantastic resource list, with his own annotations:
Background information:
Useful tools:
- Explain GDPR- the banner that displays at the bottom of the webpage notifying you that the website uses cookies, there is usually an, "Accept" button and sometimes there is a button adjacent to that one that is labeled, "Options," "Learn more," "Reasons," or with some other language indicating an alternative. so to reject the use of unnecessary cookies (illustration- https://i0.wp.com/www.cssscript.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Stylish-Multilingual-GDPR-Cookie-Consent-Popup.png?fit=1400%2C850&ssl=1)
- https://duckduckgo.com (also https://duck.com & https://ddg.gg) Google tracks you all around the internet; a great Google alternative is DuckDuckGo search engine
- https://www.ghostery.com/ Suite of internet tools designed to stop tracking and unwanted ads, notify you when a company you use has a security breach, and offers a privacy-themed newsletter
- https://proton.me Suite of privacy-by-design (PBD), end-to-end (e2e) encrypted email, calendaring, online storage of photos, documents, and files, file sharing, word processing, password manager, and crypto wallet
- https://standardnotes.com/ e2e encrypted online note-taking with iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux apps
- https://venice.ai Ask ANYTHING using PBD AI chatbots & image generators w/out the fear of anyone storing (or connecting to you) your questions & the AI's replies
- https://www.usbcondom.org/faq/ Nothing to do with sex, this is a novel idea to prevent someone from "juicejacking" or secretly downloading a malware to your device when you use that open USB device-charging port at the airport, library, or school
- https://murena.com (for the non-geeky) & https://e.foundation (for the uber-geeky) PBD alternative to Apple & Android phones that run software called /e/OS. Cloud-based back-end features and support which are similar to what Google products do for Android smartphones (free email, could storage, calendaring, contacts/address book, documents, photo storage, sharing, & more. (advanced users)
- https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64 Giving away or disposing of your old PC? Use ShredOS to SECURELY delete your personal files by blanking the whole drive by means of automatically writing random data to the hard drive or solid state drive several times.
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