5 Privacy Moves to Block Spies, Trackers, & Data Brokers
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5 Privacy Moves to Block Spies, Trackers, & Data Brokers

ByPrivacyStan

Stalkers, advertisers, and hostile actors are digging for your data every day.  Your phone is revealing your location. Your credit card transactions are leaving a trail. Adtech building a profile of your habits. The digital world thrives on surveillance. The good news? You don’t have to make it easy for them.  Here are five power…

Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation
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Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation

ByPrivacyStan

Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation Every week we hear from clients who discover their address, phone number, or family details floating around online. Sometimes it’s buried in a data broker’s report. Other times it’s blasted out on social media in a doxxing attack. At first glance, these seem like two separate worlds: Data…

Sextortion Spam
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Sextortion Spam

ByPrivacyStan

Sextortion scams aren’t new, but they remain one of the most effective forms of cyber-enabled fraud. These scams don’t rely on hacking into webcams or stealing compromising videos. Instead, they exploit fear, urgency, and personal data to convince victims that someone has damaging material. In reality, most victims are simply names on a massive spam…