Due to certain laws and legal decisions, it becomes more and more difficult to preserve one’s privacy when communicating and trading online, but there are steps we can take to preserve our privacy, according to which Bitcoin policy lawyer Freddie New shared in my recent interview with him.
Before I get to these steps, however, you must allow me to offer some background to how online privacy has been negatively affected in both the UK and us from late.
July 25. July marked the first day of enforcing UK’s online security law, which requires British Internet users input to identify information before reviewing certain sites in the effort to protect children from accessing harmful or age-in-depth content.
In the United States, the founders of Samorai Wallet, a Bitcoin blend service, recently pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business, while a co-founder of Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixer, was found guilty of the same fee.
As I said, things have been “pretty shit” (to borrow a phrase from my friends across the pond) to online privacy recently.
But Freddie New says this is not time to despair; Instead, he claims, it’s time to take very concrete actions that can help us maintain our anonymity to a better degree while using the Internet.
Ways to Increase Online -Privat Life Peace
- Use a VPN: VPNS (Virtual Private Networks) allows you to browse the Internet from a remote server, mask your IP address and anonymate your identity in the process. Popular VPNs include Mullvad VPN, Obscura VPN and Proton VPN. “Downloads of Proton VPN increased by 1,800% the day when it [Online Safety] ACT was allowed, ”explained new.
- Use a full-encrypted email service: E email services such as Proton Mail, Mailfence and Hushmail, encrypting the E emails you send, so that only you and the recipient of the e email you send can read what’s inside. “To think about using Proton Mail instead of Gmail,” suggested new in the interview.
- Create a nostr -key pair: New recommended setup of nostry key pairs (it’s lighter than it sounds) via nostr clients like Primal and Iris, as you don’t have to enter any identifying information to get started with nostry through these clients who act as social media platforms and help connect you to the world’s largest bitcoin circular economy.
- Learn how progressive webapps (PWA) works: A PWA is an app that you can access via a web browser as opposed to through the Apple’s App Store or Google Play Store. (Think about signing in X via a web browser versus using the iPhone app.) New explained that use of apps like this helps users bypass “gate kept Worlds of the Google Play Store or App Store,” worlds that typically require more identifying information to enter.
- Learn how to use APKS: An APK or an Android Package Set is a file you can use to download an app to your Android device without going through the Google Play store. “Just this weekend I downloaded APK to Bitchat,” said NY in the interview with the new app, which allows you to communicate via your phone more privately.
- Get a Bitcoin -Hardware Wallet: Hardware -cartoon books allow users to shop more privately Then deposits apps such as Relai or Cashapp do. “Considering getting a Trezor or Coldcard,” advised new.
By following the above advice you can improve your online privacy.
And if it feels overwhelming to do all of the above, start by taking only one or two actions and creating step -by -step better privacy for yourself.
As New said in the interview, “No one in the digital age will ever have perfect privacy, but you can be a little better than the next person – to improve your privacy, even a little is better than not taking steps at all.”