Back in 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that privacy was something of a myth at the time. The National Security Agency (NSA) has been examining data on

The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide

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2021-06-19 16:00:05

Back in 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that privacy was something of a myth at the time. The National Security Agency (NSA) has been examining data on anyone and everyone, regardless of whether they were US citizens, profiling as many people as it can. While the documents Snowden released forced the NSA to scale things back and offer some transparency, it is down to us to take back something that was previously considered a basic human right.

Sadly, these invasive practices aren’t exclusive to the US, as governments across the world have gone unchecked. To this day, all of them continue to pursue legal grounds that allow for backdoors to monitor your calls, messages and general internet activity.

In order to avoid the eye-in-the-sky that draws increasing similarities to George Orwell’s Big Brother, there are steps we can take. Using encryption to protect your data can make life difficult for surveillance organizations that are tasked to decrypt it. This information will be kept indefinitely until it is cracked, but this is an incredibly lengthy process. As a result, the more encrypted data becomes standard, the less it will be singled out by agencies that don’t wish to waste their time.

Following revelations about the scale of the NSA’s deliberate assault on global encryption standards, confidence in encryption has taken a big dent. So let’s examine the current state of play…

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