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Dance like no one's watching. Talk around your smart speaker like everything you say might be used in court someday. #privacy #smartspeakers #GetParanoid wired.com/story/star-wit…

On the latest podcast episode of "Inventors Helping Inventors," our CEO, Thomas Stachura, is interviewed by Alan Beckley. Learn how Paranoid came to be, and what you can do to protect your digital #privacy. Check out the episode here: inventorshelpinginventors.libsyn.com/102-from-canad…

Once you take your smart speaker out of its box, plug it in, and connect it to your home Wi-Fi network, you become the product... Read the full article: paranoid.com/articles/why-d… #smartspeaker #Google #Alexa #privacy #dataprivacy #GetParanoid

In celebration of #DataPrivacyDay 2021 we will be sharing tips every day on how to keep your data private! #DataPrivacyDay2021

Did you know January 28 is #DataPrivacyDay? Learn how cookies (not the chocolate chip kind!) track your data across multiple sites to develop sophisticated user profiles for advertising. Take a bite out of this article on the short history of data privacy. paranoid.com/articles/histo…

When it comes to passwords, complexity is less important than length. Rather than using a password such as "Password123!", you'd be better off memorizing a long sentence (such as a line from a favorite song ), and then adding special characters and spaces to it. #DataPrivacyDay

Your email should be your most secure account, since all other accounts' passwords can be reset through it, and should not share passwords with any other account. #DataPrivacyWeek

Were companies always obsessed with your data? Our concept of privacy has changed massively since the dawn of the digital era. Read on to find out what invasions of privacy looked like before computers came to widespread use. #DataPrivacyWeek paranoid.com/articles/invas…

Are you aware of what permissions your mobile apps have? Take the extra step and customize them for each app to limit data access on devices. #DataPrivacyWeek

Jeff Bezos himself has admitted that Amazon frequently sells its Echo devices at a loss, so why do Amazon and Google make so many home assistants? Find out how smart devices are used by corporations to collect your data for profit. #DataPrivacyWeek paranoid.com/articles/why-d…

Malicious individuals or bots can scrape information from public networks, only use public Wi-Fi networks for information that you don't mind anyone else snooping on. Avoid transmitting any sensitive data over public Wi-Fi. #DataPrivacyWeek

Benefits of VPNs include: being able to surf public Wi-Fi networks more securely, preventing everything you do on the internet from being recorded and sold, and being able to spoof your location in order to access content viewable only to certain regions. #DataPrivacyWeek

Did you know that browsers, search engines, and social media apps are designed to extract as much of your personal information as they can? Find out how much of your personal information is leaking to data collectors. paranoid.com/articles/onlin…

Find a safe place to store personal information instead storing it on file-sharing services. For example, Dropbox isn’t the best place to store your passport scans. #DataPrivacyWeek

Do you ever say things in the privacy of your own home that you wouldn't say in front of strangers? Be alert. Your smart speaker could be recording you up to 19 times a day without your consent. paranoid.com/articles/digit… #DataPrivacyWeek

As early as the 1940s, George Orwell predicted our loss of data privacy and our growing culture of mass surveillance in his novel, 1984. If "Orwellian" is a cliché, it's because Orwell was right. #DataPrivacyWeek paranoid.com/articles/five-…

We love our smart speakers, but we demand control over when they’re listening and what they hear. In short, we want both convenience and privacy. #GetParanoid paranoid.com

Has anyone tried a Paranoid device yet? I’m wondering if it could help safely bring smart speakers to the classroom with the mute feature. #EdTechChat #EdTech #StudentPrivacy

What are we to do if we can’t trust big tech but we love our voice assistants? Click on the article to find out. paranoid.com/articles/voice…