Due to certain laws and judicial judgments, it is becoming increasingly difficult to preserve one’s privacy when communicating and online transactions, but there are steps that we can take to maintain our privacy, as for what the supporter of Bitcoin New Freddie’s policy has shared in my recent interview with him.
Before arriving at those steps, please, please allow me to offer some backgrounds on how online privacy has been negatively influenced both in the United Kingdom and in the United States in recent times.
On July 25, he scored the first day of execution for the United Kingdom’s online security law, which requires that the United Kingdom Internet users insert identification information before surfing certain websites in the efforts to protect children from access to harmful or inappropriate content.
In the United States, the founders of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin mixing service, recently declared themselves guilty of managing a money transmission activity without a license, while a co-founder of Tornado Cash, a mixer Ethereum, was declared guilty of the same accusation.
As I said, things were “cute” (to borrow a phrase from my friends through the tin) for online privacy lately.
But Freddie New states that this is not time to despair; Instead, he claims, it is time to take very concrete actions that can help us maintain our anonymity to a better extent during the use of the Internet.
Ways to increase online privacy
- Use a VPN: VPNS (virtual private networks) allow you to browse the internet from a remote server, mask your IP address and anonymizing your identity in the process. Popular VPN include Mullvad VPN, Obscura VPN and Proton VPN. “The downloads of the VPN Proton increased by 1.800% the day on which the [Online Safety] The act became the law, “explained Nuovo.
- Use a completely encrypted e -mail service: E -mail services such as Proton Mail, Mailfance and Hushmail, encrypt the and -mail that send so that only you and the recipient of the -mail that I send it can read what’s inside. “Thinking about using proton email instead of Gmail,” New In the interview suggested.
- Set a pair of nostr keys: New recommended setting of the pair of Nostr Chiavi (it is easier than it seems) through Nostr customers such as Primal and Iris, since it is not necessary to insert any identification information to start using Nostr through these customers, which act as social media platforms and help you connect to the largest circular economy of Bitcoin in the world.
- Find out how progressive web apps (PWA) work: A PWA is an app you can access via a web browser compared to the Apple’s App Store or Google Play Store. (Think about accessing X via a web browser compared to the use of the iPhone app.) New explained that the use of apps how this helps users to circumvent the “Gate maintained the worlds of the Google Play Store or the App Store”, the worlds that generally require more identification information to enter.
- Learn to use apk: An APK or an Android package kit, is a file that you can use to download an app on your Android device without going through the Google Play Store. “Just this weekend, I downloaded the APK for Bitchat,” Nuovo said in the interview of the new App that allows you to communicate through your phone more privately.
- Get a bitcoin hardware wallet: Hardware wallets allow users to translate more privately than custodial apps such as relative or cashapp. “Considering to get a Trezor or Coldcard,” said New.
By following the above tips, you can significantly improve your online privacy.
And if it is overwhelming to do everything above, start by taking only one or two actions and creating an incredibly better privacy for yourself.
As New in The Interview said, “nobody in the digital era will ever have a perfect privacy, but you can be slightly better than the next person – improve your privacy even slightly is better than not taking the step”.