10 Steps to Protecting Your Online Privacy

05. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

Restore your online privacy with these 10 steps! Unlike other media, such as radio, TV or print, on the Internet you are constantly leaving traces. Online trackers and advertising networks track your surfing behavior with pinpoint accuracy, on all the websites and devices you use. Read More

What does the Internet know about me?

02. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

Word has spread: Surfing the Internet leaves traces. How many clues are there, how expressive they are and how deep they penetrate our privacy - is surprising and rather disturbing. This article explains what you disclose during an everyday trip into the data network. Read More

Tor-Network: Anonymous surfing according to the onion principle

01. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

Anyone surfing the Internet leaves behind traces of data that can be traced back to the user. Experts, therefore, recommend anonymizing tools that make traceability via the IP address impossible. Read More

Setup a VPN: How it works

01. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

To set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you must first create a user account with a commercial VPN provider and specify how you want to pay the VPN access fees. In addition to the usual payment methods such as credit card, direct debit or bank transfer, many providers offer anonymous payment me Read More

VPN: Surfing with a Private Network

01. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

Anyone surfing the Internet is never unobserved. The data you exchange online with others is always visible to third parties. Read More

Why should I hide my IP address?

01. Mar 2018 / Editorial Staff

For unique identification, a device requires an address within a data network - be it in the home LAN or on the Internet. This is the only way to ensure that data packets reach the right recipient. This is done via the so-called IP address. Read More

Big Trouble in Little Data

21. Feb 2018 / Editorial Staff

‘Big data.’ ‘Metadata.’ ‘Raw data.’ B.J. Mendelson has a passion for privacy, so he created a book “Privacy” from his collection of essays on privacy protection. This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled "Big Trouble in Little Data." We felt it was worth sharing. Read More

Why Should I Pay More? How to Avoid Dynamic Pricing

22. Jan 2018 / Editorial Staff

Who buys cookies in the supermarket, pays the same price as all other customers. But the Internet has its own laws: More and more retailers rely on "dynamic pricing". Read More

I Don’t Need To Change My IP Address, I Have Nothing To Hide: 6 Biggest Misconceptions About Internet Anonymity

22. Jan 2018 / Editorial Staff

Every trip to the Internet leaves traces, with which users can be clearly identified. Because when the router dials in it’s assigned a unique worldwide number combination, the IP address. Even weeks later you can find out when and with which IP address a website was visited. Why should you, Read More

Naked In The Net: What Our Internet Data Reveals About Us

22. Jan 2018 / Editorial Staff

We are increasingly online and continuously leaving data traces on the Internet. According to "Online Study 2017" by ARD and ZDF, more than 50 million people call information from the Internet every day in Germany alone. On average, every German is on the net for almost two and a half hours a day Read More