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…

Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know
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Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know

ByPrivacyStan

Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know Messaging isn’t just conversation. It’s exposure. The app you use determines whether your words are private or harvested, whether your metadata is locked down or handed over. At ObscureIQ, we stress one thing above all: use encrypted messaging. Any encrypted platform is better than plain SMS,…

Prepaid Gift Card Chart for Private Payments
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Prepaid Gift Card Chart for Private Payments

ByPrivacyStan

When you want to make online payments without leaving a clear personal trail, prepaid cards can be powerful tools. But not all prepaid options offer the same level of privacy. Some can be bought with cash and used instantly, while others demand identity verification (KYC) that defeats the whole purpose. Here’s how the most popular…

Anonymous Email Services
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Anonymous Email Services

ByPrivacyStan

Tactical Privacy: Email Address Strategy The longer you hold onto an email address, the more data brokers can cluster around it. Every subscription, login, and breach adds to the dossier. Over years, that identifier becomes a permanent key into your digital life. Switching email addresses (and keeping them private) is tactical privacy. It breaks aggregation…

Buying Guide to Used Phones
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Buying Guide to Used Phones

ByPrivacyStan

What You Need to Know Most phones are built to track you. Carriers want your ID, platforms want your accounts, and resellers keep logs. If you want a device that doesn’t tie back to your identity, you must be deliberate about how you buy it. We’ve put together a full guide on buying a used…

Best Encrypted Cloud Storage
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Best Encrypted Cloud Storage

ByPrivacyStan

The Truth About Encrypted Cloud Storage: Which Option Protects You Best? Cloud storage has become unavoidable. Every document, photo, and message we put online has the potential to be harvested, sold, or weaponized against us. That’s why the first rule of protecting your digital perimeter is simple: Any encrypted cloud storage is better than the…

Functional Privacy
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Letting AI Summarize Unknown Email, Docs

ByPrivacyStan

Letting AI Summarize Unknown Email, Docs… Gives attackers a way to execute hidden commands. Your “summary” is their payload. AI is being forced into everything. Now it’s in Gmail. And it’s exploitable. This is a problem Google is trying to address but it’s not an easy fix.  We also don’t believe that it’s a problem…

Getting Your Money When You’re Off the Grid
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Getting Your Money When You’re Off the Grid

ByPrivacyStan

Let’s say you had to run. Maybe you’re a whistleblower. Or maybe you crossed someone powerful. You’re out of the country. Safe, for now. But you’ve got another problem. You need your money. And using your U.S. accounts could light you up like a flare. The financial system tracks everything. Not just governments. Commercial surveillance…

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…