In these days when we have to spend so much time at home and that most of us have to telework, we recommend a series of tools to continue maintaining privacy in our daily tasks. take into account the hours we now spend on the Internet from our home, with our IP and our data. We put you at your fingertips a series of tools to maintain privacy now that we have to telecommute from home, with our Mac, iPhone and / or iPad.
DuckDuckGo, among others, helps you maintain privacy now that you have to work from home.
Due to the happy pandemic, many of us have to work from home. Teleworking is now a general trend worldwide. But there are certain tools that we must use now, which it may not maintain our privacy. E.g. the case of Zoom and all the problems it is generating.
Let's see a number of useful tools and that help us maintain our privacy, from browsers to VPNs through video conferencing media.
Videoconference:
FaceTime: The native of Apple and of which we have already spoken. In addition, Apple has updated the operating systems of its devices by correcting an error in this service. End-to-end encryption with a maximum of 32 users at a time.
jami: Also end-to-end encryption, the creators of this multi-platform application state that they only collect «Anonymous and aggregated data for the analysis of the statistics of visits to the Jami website»
Both free.
Search Engine:
DuckDuckGo: One of the best Internet search engines to maintain privacy and not die trying. It really works and you don't need to install any additional tools. It works much better than the search engine in incognito mode.
Browsers for your best privacy
They can be installed on any platform. But if you have a Mac, the most recommended is Safari and for Windows, Firefox.
safari: The native Apple. Although it is true that it is not one of the safest of the existing ones, we can tell you that it fulfills the privacy functions in an excellent way.
FireFox: A very experienced navigator who is truly very good in his field. With many constant updates, it is capable of being configured by the user in a thousand possible ways, achieving a very good user experience and above all to the consumer's taste.
BraveCreated by the former CEO of Mozilla, it is characterized by being very safe and fast. It focuses on eliminating components that harm the browsing experience such as advertisements, scripts and components that track our sessions, among others.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser: A browser for mobile. Very simple but effective in keeping our privacy safe. Because it is also very important to keep our mobile at bay.
TOR: We could use this browser, but I don't think it's necessary and we must also configure it well to be able to telework.
VPN
TorGuard: Easy to install and above all it is capable of working in automatic mode. Very effective to block our browsing activity or IP address from prying eyes. Of course, for it to really work, we have to go through the checkout.
Gmail is a sifter of information. There are very good alternatives that also work very well for these cases. We provide two examples: ProtonMail and Tutatona. Now if you want true privacy, we recommend FastMail which is paid but adds PGP encryption. Although we can always encrypt separately with PGP and then add it to any of the free services.
We could talk about using messaging tools that are neither WhtasApp nor Telegram. For example Signal, but we have to be honest with ourselves. Right now we could not do without any of the first two applications.
Now that we cannot have contact with our friends and family, both WhatsApp and Telegram they have become the main applications of our lives. We surely receive a lot of daily messages, with information about the pandemic and also from our relatives. So we keep them, but once it's all over we could rethink the total abandonment of WhatsAppLet's not forget, it belongs to Facebook.