Tag Archives: privacy

Take Your Privacy on the Road with DuckDuckGo

Did you know Google manipulates your search results based on your personal data? Are you like most Americans who don’t realize Facebook owns WhatsApp and Google owns Waze? Your search queries, browsing history, and even GPS information is routinely harvested by companies providing you with all of those “free” services. “So what?” you might say. “I have [...]

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Detect Password Leaks with SpyCloud

We’ve all heard of high-profile data leaks, but how do you know when your email address is associated with a password breach? SpyCloud is a free service which notifies you when any email address you use has been part of a data breach. It’s simple: Just enter in your email address, and SpyCloud will tell you [...]

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How to Download All Your Instagram Photos

If you have hundreds or even thousands of photos stored in your Instagram feed, you may be wondering if there’s a way to backup your images or “free yourself” from Instagram, should you decide to change platforms. Maybe you don’t love that it’s a Facebook product. Maybe you don’t have duplicate copies of the photos [...]

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GDPR Compliance for Real Estate Agents

If you’re like most internet users, you’ve been receiving an onslaught of privacy notification emails from companies like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the like. The driving force behind this is GDPR, the E.U.’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which became enforceable on May 25th. The reason U.S. companies are finding themselves rushing to comply with [...]

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Stop Snoops with Snowden’s “Haven”

Edward Snowden has developed an app which he hopes will help everyday citizens use the technology inside of smartphones to help catch snoops. The app is called “Haven.” As reported by The Verge: “Installed on a cheap burner Android device, Haven sends notifications to your personal, main phone in the event that your laptop has been [...]

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Protect Your Accounts with YubiKey

Passwords are no longer enough when it comes to shielding your personal information from snoops and hackers. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is the next standard for securing logins to your most sensitive accounts. Not familiar with 2FA? You can get a quick overview here. From the primer: “Two Factor Authentication, also known as 2FA, two step verification [...]

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Reconnect with Your Privacy with Disconnect.me

If you’ve ever felt like your right to privacy online is impossible to preserve, you might want to check out a tool designed to help you fight back against ad tracking, malware, and those snooping programs which sap your battery life. Disconnect.me claims to “defend the digital you.” Used by over 50 million people worldwide, the [...]

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Secure Your Communication with ProtonMail

As a real estate agent, you deal with a lot of sensitive information on your clients’ behalf. In a world where online security breaches and identity theft are rampant, you might consider upgrading your email security with ProtonMail. ProtonMail is a secure email provider based in Switzerland. Not only does the service offer end-to-end encryption, but [...]

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Browse Fast & Be Private with Firefox Focus

If internet speeds keep getting faster, why do so many websites seem to be getting slower? In a word: Advertising. More than ever we’re being tracked across the web. Behavior tracking is used to build profiles of who we are, what we like, and how we can be best marketed to on a click-by-click basis. [...]

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Great Read Roundup: Facing Fears, Procrastination, & Privacy Control

An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. 8 Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Best-Selling Author and Therapist Phil Stutz (7 minute read) Why it matters: Phil Stutz [...]

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