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what can I do right now to protect my
privacy and my security to learn tips
and tools to preserve my data on both
fronts I'm chatting with hacker and
educator Matt Mitchell where and cyber
security expert Eva galperin do first up
privacy sorry
privacy Matt is a privacy Advocate at
crypto Harlem as in cryptography the
process of hiding or coding information
okay what do I do to make all this safer
for me what do I do who do I talk to how
do I start you have to ask yourself is
this a problem that needs to be fixed
privacy isn't a switch it's a dial you
get to control how much you share with
who and with what have you ever used
this website called Google I've heard of
it yeah well let's check this out well
if we go here to my
activity. google.com
it'll show us all the things that you've
been doing so for example when we go
here we see all the different Google
services that you use I don't think they
make a service you don't use these
platforms are so deeply embedded in many
of our lives and for good reason they
make products that can be really useful
it's hard for me to imagine going a
single day without searching the web or
using a navigation app but they also
suck up a lot of our data it's a
trade-off that I'm comfortable making
within reason I didn't know this but I
can literally just delete huge amounts
of data that Google storing about me and
the same is true for a lot of other
services we can dial to whatever level
we feel comfortable for example on
LinkedIn you would just click on me and
then you would go to your settings and
privacy here when we go to manag your
activity it tells you that you know you
started sharing your LinkedIn data with
a permitted application
treating privacy like a dial means it's
not all or nothing you can have your
data cake and eat it too like now I'm
thinking that I want to log into
everything all my social media my email
my LinkedIn everything regularly and
look to see who is using these exactly
it is about awareness furthermore the
companies they know how many people
actually use the Privacy controls and by
you even peing in it you're saying I
believe privacy matters
at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Eva shows me how I can take my privacy
game to the next
level learning some surveillance
self-defense although apparently not
that kind of
self-defense so the next step in your
privacy journey is uh fighting back
against uh types of corporate
surveillance uh and one of the things
that websites really like to do uh when
uh is not just to track what you are
doing on their website but to track all
the other websites that you go to and
they do this using cookies there's some
companies I trust and I'm like fine you
have these cookies they're chocolate
chip I know where they were made I know
what you're doing with them but then
there's these third party companies I
don't want them around me you can use a
browser extension to eat these cookies
uh and fight back against this kind of
tracking and keep those websites from
seeing where else you're going browser
extensions are add-ons for your web
browser that give it extra features and
functionality like eating
cookies I'm imagining this like digital
Cookie Monster that's eating up all
these pieces of my online activity so
that companies don't know what I'm doing
online and it reduces the amount of
privacy tracking am I understanding that
what these browser extensions do is they
get rid of uh the tracking cookies that
these websites use to see all the other
sites that you're going to which is none
of their business