https://bjornjohansen.com/category/privacy/ Recent content in privacy on {bjørn:johansen} Hugo -- 0.118.2 en-US Thu, 24 May 2018 00:25:56 +0000 https://bjornjohansen.com/gravity-forms-personal-data-exporter-and-eraser/ Thu, 24 May 2018 00:25:56 +0000 urn:uuid:34613161-3234-5462-b863-383936626363 When WordPress 4.9.6 launched on May 17, 2018 it came with new tools for exporting and erasing personal data that you may have collected (you know, GDPR and all). But Gravity Forms as of version 2.3.2 doesn’t integrate with these tools. Fortunately, it is really easy to write your own exporters and erasers. https://bjornjohansen.com/secure-email/ Thu, 25 May 2017 11:49:24 +0000 urn:uuid:33613931-3236-5265-b165-386234653236 Email is fundamentally insecure. There are such a plethora of issues with it, it is crazy to think about the kind of information sent with it. It is probably even crazier when you realize we’ve had a solution for sending secure email since 1991. https://bjornjohansen.com/dns-privacy/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 02:01:03 +0000 urn:uuid:37383034-6534-5064-a536-303938316665 Many ISPs and other DNS providers are slow or inject ads, track you, hijack DNS queries or do other nasty stuff. To mitigate this, you should use a fast, reliable and free service that respects your DNS privacy. https://bjornjohansen.com/self-destructing-cookies/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:22:35 +0000 urn:uuid:32313836-3463-5439-b831-613937656463 This is the second post in my series of posts on some of the tools I use to stay a little safer and protect my privacy online. With self-destructing cookies, you get a clean sheet even with those who don’t respect the Do-Not-Track header. https://bjornjohansen.com/secure-messaging-signal/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:40:49 +0000 urn:uuid:32626664-3434-5761-b166-383236303166 I’m running a series of posts on some of the tools I use to stay a little safer and protect my privacy online. Here’s how you can get much better secure messaging on your phone using the Signal app. https://bjornjohansen.com/tracking-visitors-with-adblockers/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:02:19 +0000 urn:uuid:66373963-6565-5537-b462-303831323535 More and more users are using adblockers or surfing the web via private browsing with tracking protection. But this also affects your web analytics, as the blockers also will block analytics tracking – not only third party services like Google Analytics, but also self-hosted solutions like Piwik.