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Schmidt 1y ago

Threats to privacy

- Governments

- Analytics companies (like Chainalysis)

- Mass surveillance in general

- Transparent blockchains

- Email monitoring

- Chat monitoring

- Metadata collection

- Tracking cookies

- Social media

- Internet of Things (IoT)

- Mobile apps

- Data breaches

- Data mining

- Cloud storage

- Facial recognition

- Biometric data

- Public Wi-Fi

- Geolocation tracking

- Browser fingerprinting

- Smart assistants (e.g., Alexa, Google Home)

- Smart TVs and appliances

- Health and fitness trackers

- Cybersecurity vulnerabilities

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Δ 1y ago

Agreed with most of your points but how is public wi-fi a privacy threat if let’s say you use a vpn and randomize your mac-address with each connection?

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Schmidt 1y ago

By combining VPN use and MAC address randomization, you mitigate many risks, but some vulnerabilities still persis, e.g. DNS leaks, compromised VPN, browser fingerprint, session tracking, behaviour analysis.