Your proactive online privacy sidekick. Deleting your personal data from companies that shouldn’t have it—and stopping others from selling it.
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Everyone deserves the right to decide which companies can have their data — and which can’t. Thanks @TomKemp00 and @SenJoshBecker for leading the way with #SB362! Team @Confidently strongly supports your efforts.
.@LATimes article on #SB362 -- would give @Calprivacy the ability to create a consumer-facing portal that would enable deletion from #databrokers and do not track. Bill authored by @JoshBeckerSV latimes.com/politics/story/2…
We’d love to see a national don’t-collect-my-data registry—but we aren’t waiting on Congress to act. Neither should you.
Proactively protect your privacy today: get.confidently.com/proactiv…
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It’s nearly impossible to maintain complete anonymity online. But there are steps any privacy-conscious internet user can take to minimize their digital footprint, as our co-founder, @BrentBlackaby, explains: act.confidently.com/blog/you…
You deserve to know. See if you’ve been exposed in a data breach: get.confidently.com/breach_l…
With gas prices at an all-time high, it can feel tempting to look for a deal at the pump.
But beware of the apps like these that exploit times like these to get you to give them your personal data.
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Companies shouldn’t be buying and selling your location data, or any other sensitive information about you—and especially not without your knowledge and consent.
Proactively protect your privacy—Confidently: get.confidently.com/proactiv…
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Spam texts (and calls! and emails!) are the worst.
This article offers helpful tips for dealing with them, including refusing to open suspicious links.
Here’s another: Cleaning up your data trail with Confidently makes it harder for spammers to find you in the first place.
Spam texts are now more common than spam calls, and people lost an estimated $10 billion (!!!) to text scams in 2021. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
How do you prevent spammers and scammers from finding you?
You stop companies from selling your personal data to them.
That’s what we do at Confidently.
Protect your privacy—and your sanity: get.confidently.com/proactiv…
California and Illinois: You can now delete your face from Clearview AI’s database: clearview.ai/privacy-and-req…
The rest of us need much stronger privacy protections—especially when one facial recognition tech firm wants to be able to identify everyone on earth.
Scoop: I got Clearview AI's big new pitch to investors. The facial recognition giant wants to work with private companies in retail and the gig economy. And with $50 million, they said they can get to 100 billion faces, enough to identify everyone on earth wapo.st/354pfME
Join the privacy revolution—our team is hiring!
We’re looking for a Technical Operations QA Lead. More information here:
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2022 has just begun, and it’s already shaping up to be a record year for data breaches. Take a moment right now to check if your data has been breached:
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#PrivacyTip: Get a password manager—and don’t ever use the same password twice.
If finding the right system feels daunting, start by reading this guide:
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Your data privacy is important to you—and to us. But just how important is harvesting and tracking your data to the tech industry?
Look no further than Facebook’s stock price for your answer. Our co-founder, @BrentBlackaby, explains why: act.confidently.com/blog/fac…
Protecting our data—by getting companies to delete our personal information and stop selling it—helps protect our national security.
When there’s less of our data out there, there’s less information for nefarious foreign actors to find and exploit.
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Got spam? (Who doesn’t?!?) Report it here!
Spam calls are the worst. That's why we've made it easier to report them to the FTC:
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Spam calls are the worst. That's why we've made it easier to report them to the FTC:
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Your frequent reminder that data protection is not about protecting the data, it is about protecting the people behind the data and all of their fundamental/civil rights.
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Great news — and a huge win for individual privacy. (Also a rare chance to thank the IRS. So thanks @IRSnews and @YourVoiceAtIRS!)
The IRS is dropping its third-party facial recognition system used to verify taxpayers. Privacy and civil rights advocates and lawmakers from both major parties have objected to the system. wired.trib.al/TKE5UPZ Via @arstechnica
