Outpost Privacy @OutpostPrivacy

Prejudice is everywhere in society, whether conscious or unconscious. Maintaining your privacy means you can control what people know about you and limits the prejudice they might hold against you. 💪 #outpostprivacy #data #privacy #cybersecurity #technology #datasecurity #gdpr

You can take measures that protect your privacy and limit the risk of your data being breached 🔒 There are countless horror stories of the endless stress involved with reclaiming a breached identity ⌛ Don't put yourself through that pain 😭 Start protecting your privacy TODAY!

😇 People are not static. They change, grow and learn🌱 If you don't protect your privacy, a snapshot of yourself is forever available for people to use and judge. Privacy helps us move beyond our mistakes and be better people. 📚

👔 The more people know about you, the more ammunition bad actors have to smear your reputation. 👔 Even if you have "nothing to hide", we all know how easy it is to spin something into something it's not. Protect yourself from falsehoods and snap judgements about your character.

Data is regularly used by police and law enforcement as evidence to prosecute people ⚖️ Sometimes this can be used to limit free speech or discriminate 🤐 Protecting your privacy reduces the risk that your data can be used against you... especially for something you didn't do!

👮Police use various technologies (such as IMSI catchers) every day to monitor protesters 👫 and intercept personal information. Some people decide not to protest due to a very real fear that information about their participation might be used against them. Privacy = anonymity 🕵️‍♂️

You only have one identity☝️Privacy is all about preventing it from being used by malicious strangers. 1 in 4 Australians has been affected by identity crime in their life. Are you doing everything you can to protect yourself from being part of the statistic? 🧐#outpostprivacy

🙈 You might have nothing to hide today, but what about tomorrow? 🙉 What happens when governments change, goalposts move and expectations change? 🙊 What if something you do today is made illegal in the future? What happens when the comfortable become the persecuted? 🤔

🙈 You might have nothing to hide today, but what about tomorrow? 🙉 What happens when governments change, goalposts move and expectations shift? 🙊 What if something you do today is illegal in the future? What happens when the comfortable become the persecuted? 🤔

🌐We all have that friend or family member who dismisses their right to privacy because they have 'nothing to hide'. 🌐 Stay tuned for our upcoming series on why privacy matters, and arm yourself to educate those around who get complacent! 😎

🎈We have just launched our Australian-first privacy tool, and it's FREE at outpostprivacy.com! 🎉 Our site lets you tell the entire data brokering industry to keep their hands OFF your data! Drastically minimise your digital footprint in one easy click!🎈

We message all day long, so make sure you are using apps that use 🔒end to end encryption🔒 to secure your privacy in the event your phone or passwords fall into the wrong hands. Apps like Signal, Line, Threema, Telegram, Wickr and Whatsapp do the job well.

🕵️ haveibeenpwned.com 🕵️ compiles the latest data breaches from hacker hangouts like pastebin so you can check if you've been exposed. 📧Pro Tip: Subscribe to their notification service so you are always in the know. 📧 Most recent breaches include 'Bonobos ' and 'Pixlr'.

📧Using a dummy email address for services which don't require ongoing correspondence dramatically increases your privacy by minimising the spread of your primary credentials (and reduces spam too!) 📧 #outpostprivacy #data #privacy #cybersecurity #technology #datasecurity

🕵️What's even scarier is that 3.2 BILLION of those records (over 78%) were exposed by just eight breaches...

3 BILLION accounts!? That's more than a third of the world's population exposed 🌎 The scale and impact of this data breach boggles the mind 🧠 How many other accounts were exposed as a result? How many people have reused their emails and passwords since and are still vulnerable?

🔒Two Factor Authentication 🔒 adds an enormous amount of security to your accounts by essentially requiring a second password. It usually takes the form of either something you own (a smartphone📱 or hardware key🔑) or something you know (a secret question🕵️).

🍪 We know they're annoying (especially the ones that stop you from browsing altogether) but take the time to minimise the cookies you accept. Sure they have a cute name but they follow you around the internet and track your online activity. 🕵️ Not cool!

🔒The ideal 'passphrase' is long and easy to memorise, but remember to avoid using an actual sentence - it still needs to be random! 🎲 Something like "dog long bow knight pancake tower" (hint: try a random word generator until you strike gold!)

In Australia these are called 'access requests' and can be as simple as an email to a business asking what personal information they hold on you. Only a handful of Australians know this right exists, so spread the word and send one today.