Two weeks ago, I started talking a bit about my concerns regarding privacy – which may be the same as yours – and decided I’d start running down a list of things that I’m trying, using, and doing to adhere more to privacy-centric software and services.
Here’s the thing though:
- what I’m comfortable with using may not be the same for you (and vice versa),
- and privacy and security are not terms that I use interchangeably.
Going into this series, I want to make sure I’m working off of a consistent definition of privacy. You can see the whole definition here but for the purpose of these articles, I’m going to be using the following:
Privacy grants us freedom from the public; concealed.
So any service that compromises that definition on any level would be something that violates privacy. Furthermore, it’s hard to find things that are purely private is near impossible so we have to make tradeoffs.
And I’m going to lead with that.