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Privacy is very important to me. Since I've got some security background and my main interest is Personal Information Management, being interested in privacy is the logical consequence. I blog a lot on this and similar topics.
My most popular blog article on privacy is the one about the cloud. It is an interesting collection on real-life incidents that prove that using cloud services has to be thought about carefully. To me, it is perfectly OK to use cloud services for your data under those conditions you should be aware of. There is also a German version of this article: Es ist in Ordnung, wenn du deine persönlichen Daten Cloud-Firmen gibst.
You might also check out my articles on PIM, quantified self, security, and surveillance.
In 2017, I gave a German talk at the Grazer Linuxdays which sums up most of my ideas about privacy:
All articles tagged with privacy (sorted by last update, oldest on top):
- Der Preis der Privatsphäre
- Soziale Netzwerke? Vorerst nein Danke!
- Why I am not using social web networks
- Festplatten ohne Löschen verkaufen
- Ver-Cloud-ifizierung des vernetzten Autos
- TextSecure
- Den Computer halbwegs sicher betreiben
- GnuPG/OpenPGP key transition: I've got a new key
- Bitmessage: a Privacy-Aware Secure Alternative to Email
- Locating Your Android Phone With Watchdroid and TextSecure
- Slur - Leaking for "Greedy Sociopaths" and a Positive Aspect
- Schöne neue Welt: Kinder leiden als "Digital Natives"
- Nacktheit: zwischen Gleichgültigkeit und kranker Paranoia
- Apple: Privacy Is Important for Your Data, Give Us All Your Data
- Die uneingeschränkten Rechte der App-Hersteller
- Buch-Kritik: »Zero« von Marc Elsberg
- »Total vernetzt und trotzdem sicher« und keiner geht hin
- Eben Moglen: Freedom in The Cloud
- Why I (Still) Recommend Using Signal
- Edward Snowden Interview by Startpage.com
- Machine Learning and AI Considered Harmful
- Personalized Services Killing the Values of Our Society
- Choosing the Wrong Mobile Messenger Might Inprison You
- Firejail
- Blocking facebook on GNU/Linux via iptables
- Candy From Strangers: Yes, Please!
- GLT17: Ich halte einen Emacs Einsteiger Workshop und rede über Privacy
- Digitale Selbstverteidigung in Zeiten der Cloud
- Die herrliche Zukunft ist gemäß Microsoft totalüberwacht
- Fefe zu den Gefahren des Internets der Dinge (IoT)
- Going Back to Analog
- Sascha Lobo über wie viel Überwachung wir wirklich wollen
- A Conversation With Ross Anderson
- Consider Your Smartphone a Tainted Device
- Firefox Focus: Privacy-Aware Mobile Browser
- Apple hilft bei Diebstahlsdelikten anders als gedacht
- Qubes OS 3.2
- Tools and Tips for Privacy Aware People: PrivacyTools.io
- Sopranica: a Surveillance-Free Cellular Network Built by Volunteers
- Google and Their Honest Understanding of Saving Your Privacy
- Programmers May Get Access to Recordings of Alexa
- Fingerabdrücke verdeckt stehlen
- Millennials Are Easy Targets Because They Trust Less Secure Methods
- Facebook Is the Issue, Not Cambridge Analytica
- Die EU fördert den "Europa-Prozessor"
- Podiumsdiskussion über Datenschutz
- QubesOS - The Operating System That Can Protect You Even if You Get Hacked
- The Spying Capabilities of US and Russian Surveillance
- Die Österreichische Post speichert oder verkauft unsere Parteiaffinität
- Buch-Kritik: »QualityLand« von Marc-Uwe Kling
- Snowden on Personal Security and Privacy
- Accessing Your Home Server Via Ssh over the Tor Network
- You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud
- We're Losing the Last Chance of Anonymity With Voice Profiles
- It's OK to Give Away Your Personal Data to Cloud Companies
- Es ist in Ordnung, wenn du deine persönlichen Daten Cloud-Firmen gibst
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