https://youtu.be/x6jxxcv-d4Q https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/privacy-screen:c A privacy screen is an ESSENTIAL privacy tool for every tool box. In this video I explain what a privacy screen is, how the technology works, how to apply one to your devices, and go over important tips -- especially if you have a fingerprint reader on your phone screen. 00:00 A SPY’s favorite tool 01:15 What is a Privacy Screen? 03:11 How it Works 04:31 Tutorial 06:03 IMPORTANT TIPS: Fingerprint readers 07:54 ...
Jun 15, 2024•9 min•Season 11Ep. 12
Did you know that apps on your phone can see which other apps you have installed? And that apps can talk to each other and share information, without you realizing? In this video we show you how to stop apps communicating with each other, and look at the scoped storage and sandboxing of apps in GrapheneOS, and what it does and doesn't protect against. 00:00 Apps Can Talk to Each Other 02:18 Sandboxing and Using Scored Storage on GrapheneOS 04:58 Secondary Profiles 10:24 Google Play Services: How...
Jun 01, 2024•15 min•Season 11Ep. 11
https://youtu.be/Ff9pmaSdZV8 https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/selling-your-car:6 Cars are no longer dumb machines -- They're smart devices with hundreds of computers bolted on top that collect information about our activities. Some car companies have even explicitly said in their privacy policies that they collect information about your sexual activity! Given that so much information is stored in our car, what happens when we sell it? Do we just hand this sensitive information off to the nex...
May 17, 2024•16 min•Season 11Ep. 10
https://youtu.be/-1khYr697jM https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Adv-Data-Protection:e Thanks to powerful marketing, privacy is something we’ve come to immediately associate with Apple. But your iCloud is probably NOT as private as you think. Last year, Apple added E2EE for iCloud backups, with a tool called "Advanced Data Protection”. This setting means that your documents, photos, and other personal information in iCloud are kept private and out of the reach of even Apple itself. BUT, this...
May 04, 2024•9 min•Season 11Ep. 9
https://youtu.be/VaUsJvUMUgE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/OSINT-photos:8 Every picture and video you post spills secrets about you, maybe even revealing where you live. The process of connecting all these dots of our online activities is a practice known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. It's the practice of using all the information available online such as public records, reviews we write, email addresses, usernames, location check ins, and social media, to link together the br...
Apr 19, 2024•12 min•Season 11Ep. 8
https://youtu.be/C0CyuDEuLsE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Financial-surveillance:e Financial privacy has practically vanished over the last 50 years. Most people are in denial about it, and still believe that their relationship with their bank or their credit union is confidential -- the reality couldn’t be further from that. In this video we walk you through the history of how financial privacy slowly disappeared, and how we built a gargantuan financial surveillance system that no on...
Apr 05, 2024•21 min•Season 11Ep. 7
https://youtu.be/0RhCrb8OCjw https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b The current state of privacy is bad. Surveillance today is pervasive, and the effects of this surveillance on the fabric of society is profound. We need to make sure we’re fully aware of the consequences of creating a world without privacy. If we want to reclaim privacy in the digital age, the answer is not to throw out our devices, it’s to truly embrace technology, and leverage all the new, cutting edg...
Mar 24, 2024•55 min•Season 11Ep. 6
https://youtu.be/_0EiqiPuR4Q https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Little-Snitch:7 Our computers constantly talk to servers across the internet without us realizing, sharing information about our activities. Most of us don't even realize how many programs are silently connecting to the internet and sharing data. It usually happens without our explicit consent. But we can block these connections. On Mac, you can use a program called Little Snitch. In this video we look at the data is silently t...
Mar 08, 2024•14 min•Season 11Ep. 5
https://youtu.be/n_kTzu8NEyg https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Back-up-Photos-privately:7 Photos these days usually stay in digital form. Sometimes we back them up to the cloud for safekeeping: but who is getting access to your sensitive images when you do so? In this video we look at the built-in photo backup options on iPhone and Android, and how private they really are. We also explore more private backup solutions, and how to set them up to happen automatically so that you never have t...
Feb 24, 2024•16 min•Season 11Ep. 4
https://youtu.be/rOtMGJVp2MU https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/decentralized-storage:6 We put a lot of trust in cloud storage providers, presuming that they’ll keep our data safe. But what if they're hacked? Or their servers go down? Or what if they decide to just kick us out of our accounts, and we lose all our emails, files, contacts, photos... There's another big problem with centralizing all our storage on a single platform: it turns out the whole world is doing it. Most of the world's...
Feb 10, 2024•14 min•Season 11Ep. 3
https://youtu.be/RyirQOCUUK8 https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Calyx:7 Your phone is more than just a communication tool; it’s a powerful tracking device, and the SIM card inside is a key reason why. I don’t actually have a SIM card in any of my phones, and in this video I’ll explain the reasons why. I’ll also talk about alternative ways that you can still have connectivity on the go without a SIM in your phone, and I’ll dive into the downsides of not having a SIM in your phone. 00:00 Your...
Jan 26, 2024•23 min•Season 11Ep. 2
https://youtu.be/eR7D6Fx0fTQ https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Privacy-in-the-Digital-Age:1 Many of us don't fully grasp the importance of privacy for a free society. We allow total invasion of our privacy, making a bet that we and those in power will stay on good terms, so this data will never be used against us. But as Snowden said, regimes come and go, social norms change, but that data is forever. Privacy is not a tool for criminals, as many would have you believe. It's essential for regu...
Jan 14, 2024•12 min•Season 11Ep. 1
https://youtu.be/80gv6opFy3o https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Santa:e9f The holidays are upon us, and it's time to ask some SERIOUS questions: Why do we allow Santa to spy on us through the year to see if we're being good or bad? Why do we allow him to dictate the behavior of our children?? In our final video of the year, we explore the history of Santa’s inter-generational ploy to extend his unnatural life through the collection of our data. We also give you suggestions for how to protec...
Dec 24, 2023•7 min•Season 10Ep. 36
https://youtu.be/A9DPDE0FZeQ https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/location-tracking:7 Our phones are complex devices that leak our location in countless ways. We explain 3 essential settings for protecting your location data: - Airplane Mode - Location Services - WiFi We dive into how they work and try to demystify location tracking, hopefully leaving you with a better understanding of how to use these tools in your privacy toolbox. 00:00 Do you know how to stop location tracking? 02:28 Airpl...
Dec 15, 2023•15 min•Season 10Ep. 35
https://youtu.be/FDxv04k3Zg8 https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/tech-innovation:6 How technology can help us carve out more freedom in our daily lives NOW. 00:00 Crypto as one of the most potent tools for freedom we've ever seen 9:05 Can crypto and traditional finance coexist? 15:35 Importance of Financial Privacy 16:50 CBDCs and the dystopian future 22:15 Importance of Privacy in a free society 24:28 Have the tables of power already turned given all these decentralized technologies? 30:27 ...
Dec 04, 2023•52 min•Season 10Ep. 34
https://youtu.be/wg00QkcpOOM https://odysee.com/Graphene-Deep-dive:5818aefbaa107d89bc66e1dd196bbb8c8ccbcb73 Your phone is your portal to the digital world, where all kinds of sensitive activity happens. It's important to make sure your phone isn't leaking all this information about you, and the operating system you use makes a huge difference. Android and iOS collect a huge amount of data from you, so in previous videos we've explained how to instal GrapheneOS instead. In this video we dive into...
Nov 27, 2023•20 min•Season 10Ep. 33
https://youtu.be/zH9LzC-djos https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Twiter-e2ee:d X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, rolled out "encrypted messages" this year! We explain how to use it, who is eligible, but we also dive into the nitty gritty of how this encryption has been implements, and why we don't think you should trust it for anything sensitive. There are better E2EE messaging apps out there. 00:00 X introduces Encrypted Messaging 02:53 How to Send Encrypted Messages on X 03:30 Who...
Nov 15, 2023•16 min•Season 10Ep. 32
https://youtu.be/V2WrDZnk33g https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Strava-v6-LBRY:b Fitness apps help us keep track of our health, but they're also a privacy nightmare. If you're not careful with how you use it, it can even put you in danger. In this video we explore how they leak all kinds of information about us, how malicious actors scrape data from these apps to target people’s locations, and we look at their hidden settings that you might not realize are turned on. 00:00 Intro 01:05 Overview...
Nov 04, 2023•18 min•Season 10Ep. 31
https://youtu.be/y4brX6x3mrM https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Keyboard-privacy:1 How private is your phone keyboard? Smartphones allow us to intimately communicate, do sensitive work, and access the world around us by tapping on a screen: The gateway to this world is the keyboard. It’s where we type our searches, our credit card details, our passwords. You'd better hope the keyboard you're using is private, and not sending off your keystrokes somewhere else. In this video we dive into key...
Oct 25, 2023•20 min•Season 10Ep. 30
https://youtu.be/eIryvRwxp9A https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Car-Tracking:7 It's worse than you realize. In this video we dive into all the types of data your car is collecting about you: from video footage, microphone recordings, location data, biometrics, all the way to files/contacts/photos ingested from your phone! 00:00 Cars are NO place for a private conversation! 02:11 What data is our car collecting? 05:41 Video footage 06:16 Microphones 08:09 Location 08:40 There's a SIM card in...
Oct 15, 2023•16 min•Season 10Ep. 29
https://youtu.be/HYAQYbE63wo https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Creating-a-better-internet:9 The internet has fundamentally transformed the way we communicate and access information. But while it lifts us up, it has also become the most potent enabler of totalitarian surveillance that the world has ever seen. In this talk, I explore the privacy implications of our growing digital world, and the kind of future we are paving the way towards. I also dive into what we can do today to try to ens...
Oct 05, 2023•36 min•Season 10Ep. 28
https://youtu.be/OR8SmnVSLCg https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Youre-a-target:a "I'm not important, why would anyone target me?" The internet is a war zone filled with people actively trying to scrape all of your data and attack you with scams. But you're not being singled out: Scammers target everyone. They're indiscriminate, and you will inevitably fall into their wide net. In this video I explain how perceiving yourself as a low-value target actually makes you an ideal target for both s...
Sep 25, 2023•13 min•Season 10Ep. 27
https://youtu.be/b0d90ul4ELE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/data-brokers-ruin-lives:d Data brokers are like invisible digital packrats, silently harvesting every piece of data about us that they can find. But the information provided by data brokers isn’t always correct. This is a problem because it's often heavily relied on by law enforcement as evidence, without being independently verified. In this video, hacker and researcher Ghost Exodus explains how his life took a dramatic turn b...
Sep 16, 2023•13 min•Season 10Ep. 26
https://youtu.be/rtRQKQkvUfE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Telegram:68 Telegram advertises itself as a private messaging app, and has attracted over 800 million users. But Telegram is one of the last apps I'd recommend if you're looking for private communication. In this video we explain how encryption actually works on Telegram: how it's not possible to end-to-end encrypt group chats, and how direct messages are not private by default. There are also some red flags about their encrypt...
Sep 05, 2023•10 min•Season 10Ep. 25
https://youtu.be/GQHutNQVLgw https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Data-Brokers:b Data brokers know a lot about us. They silently harvest any information they can find, by purchasing information, using trackers, scraping social media, ingesting data breaches. They compile this information into databases, and sell access so that others can sift through the most private and sensitive areas of our lives. In this video we pull back the curtain on a largest player in this industry - LexisNexis Risk...
Aug 26, 2023•19 min•Season 10Ep. 24
https://youtu.be/tIr9GfCtd9U https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Private-Transactions:b Financial privacy is essential for a free society, because it allows us to support causes we believe in without fear of retribution, to flee dangerous situations without being tracked, to live our daily lives without feeling like every choice we make is on display and needs to be self-censored. How can we have a truly free society if the way we interact with the world around us is constantly monitored and...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 23
https://youtu.be/c-bDpZoG--w https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/pfsense-deep-dive:5 Consumer grade routers are like leaky boats. But you can beef up your setup using things like the pfSense open source router and firewall software. In previous videos we've looks specifically at DNS settings, and programs like "Unbound" within pfSense. While these grant you granular control over your home network, they can also be confusing. This video dives deeper into "Unbound", the DNS resolver on pfSense...
Aug 05, 2023•13 min•Season 10Ep. 22
https://youtu.be/pURzvhYQ2FQ https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/DNS-Blocklists:3 These days, trackers infiltrate nearly every webpage. Advertisements demand your attention and monitor your online movements. Your own devices and software send telemetry back to manufacturers and developers, leaking all kinds of information about your activities. DNS blocklists can help you regain control over your network traffic. They can stop your devices from ever connecting to certain data tracking sites,...
Jul 27, 2023•17 min•Season 10Ep. 21
https://youtu.be/MBBOjf7fLrc https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/The-erosion-of-privacy-and-its-consequences:3 Privacy is assaulted in broad daylight and everything we do is recorded with an unforgiving permanence. We trade away our private data for services and conveniences -- not realizing that the government has become party to every agreement we enter into. Due to the 3rd-Party Doctrine, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the digital age. The government uses this loophole to...
Jul 15, 2023•45 min•Season 10Ep. 20
https://youtu.be/NtXRkKs_PA8 https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Youtube-alternative-apps:3 When you want to watch videos on your phone, you're probably using an app whose dual role behind the scenes is to gather as much information about you as it can. It observes all of your actions, and adds all this information to a database about you that it shares with thousands of other companies. Why not use a more private video-streaming app? In this video we explore alternatives, and explain how ea...
Jul 05, 2023•16 min•Season 10Ep. 19
