Online Privacy Is Under Threat In The UK And US. Policy Expert Freddie New Advises How To Protect Yourself
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Due to certain laws and court rulings, it’s becoming more and more difficult to preserve one’s privacy when communicating and transacting online, but there are steps we can take to maintain our privacy, as per what Bitcoin policy advocate Freddie New shared in my recent interview with him. Before getting to those steps, though, please allow me to offer some background on how online privacy has been negatively impacted in both the UK and US as of late. July 25 marked the first day of enforcement for the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires that UK internet users input identifying information before browsing certain websites in efforts to protect children from accessing harmful or age-inappropriate content. In the US, the founders of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin mixing service, recently pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, while a co-founder of Tornado Cash, an Ethereum mixer, was found guilty of the same charge. Like I said, things have been “pretty shit” (to borrow a phrase from my friends across the pond) for online privacy lately. But Freddie New says that this isn’t time to despair; instead, he argues, it’s time to take very concrete actions that can help us to maintain our anonymity to a better degree while using the internet. Ways to Increase Online Privacy Use a VPN: VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) allow you to browse the internet from a remote server, masking your IP address and anonymizing your identity in the process. Popular VPNs include Mullvad VPN, Obscura VPN, and Proton VPN. “Downloads of the Proton VPN soared by 1,800% on the day that the [Online Safety] Act became law,” explained New. Use a fully-encrypted email service: Email services such as Proton Mail, Mailfence, and Hushmail, encrypt the emails you send so that only you and the…
