Top 8 Privacy Tools to Protect your Data in 2023

 

If there's one thing that 2018 has taught us, it's that even the most prominent organizations are susceptible to data breaches and other privacy and security flaws. Unfortunately, you, not the organization, are the victim when your data is lost or stolen. 
 

Even though cookie banner has been used as a privacy tool by businesses to collect user consent for the usage of cookies, the upcoming era will only feature a product built on privacy from its core instead of just having a cookie banner or cookie policy embedded on the page. 
 

Taking this as an anchor, I'm constantly curious to see what new tech innovators have to offer for software that protects user privacy online. This article has a list of tools that help you protect your data and privacy.  

 

Use Private Search Browsers 

Despite having privacy worries about Google as a search engine, Google may still track all of your surfing behavior if you choose Chrome as your browser. Your browser serves as your entry point to the internet. Therefore, selecting a secure browser is crucial. 

 
 

Brave 

Although some team members are still adamantly opposed, Brave has become the team's default option. It comes preconfigured with some cool features because privacy and crypto were priorities during design. Ad blocking, cookie and fingerprint blocking, malware blocking, and HTTPS everywhere are some of the most beneficial features. You can also forbid scripts from executing, although many websites will stop working if you do this.  

 
 

This means that even if a website has a cookie banner, it will mean much as the Brave browser helps to auto-block cookies along with the cookie banner itself and allow just the essential scripts crucial for the web experience. You can choose from various search engines on their extensive, user-friendly interface. However, extensions still need to be included.  

Mozilla's Firefox 

With the introduction of Quantum, Mozilla has achieved some incredible progress. Easy to use, the Firefox privacy settings menu also provides the following: 

• Tracking protection. 

• Permissions management. 

• Pop-up window blocking. 

• Add-on installation. 

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• The ability to choose which information you want to share with Mozilla. 

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It starts quickly and lets you use whichever search engine you want. We wholeheartedly urge you to give it a shot. 
 

Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) 

The term "Virtual Private Network," or VPN, means that it is possible to establish a secure network connection when using public networks. VPNs hide your online activity by encrypting your internet traffic. The use of real-time encryption is made. This makes it harder for third parties to keep track of your online activities and steal your data.  

 
 

NordVPN 

NordVPN is a provider of personal virtual private networks (VPNs). It offers desktop programs for Windows, macOS, and Linux, as well as programs for iOS and Android phones and tablets and an Android TV program. A manual configuration is an option for wireless routers, NAS devices, and other platforms. 2017's top VPN service, according to PC Magazine, was NordVPN. 

 

Perfect-Privacy 

A solid illustration of a trustworthy and respectable VPN is Perfect Privacy. It employs only dedicated servers instead of virtual servers. It has servers across 23 nations. Perfect Privacy will launch a new VPN to route data through if it finds a bottleneck slowing down its network. 

Utilize secure file sharing. 

Although using Google Drive and Dropbox may seem like the most convenient options for cloud file storage, other options use encryption to protect your files and their contents if you are storing files that contain critical information that you want to keep secure. 

Cryptomator 

For your cloud files, Cryptomator is a free client-side encryption program. It is entirely open source and derives all of its income from donations. You won't notice a difference when working with your encrypted files because Cryptomator uses transparent encryption once installed on your device. You may construct vaults anywhere with Cryptomator inside an existing Dropbox or Google Drive. 

Tresorit 

File encryption software called Tresorit is used to sync and share files among several devices. Tresorit uses zero-knowledge encryption, meaning it is entirely unaware of the information in your encrypted files. Tresorit employs top-notch security measures, but it doesn't sacrifice user convenience. Security is hardly noticeable, thanks to the interface's remarkable simplicity and ease of use. 
 

Use Private Search Engine 

You can use private search engines to look up anything you want without worrying that the search engine will use your information against you. These search engines don't use your search history to target you with advertisements.  

 

DuckDuckGo 

Without question, DuckDuckGo. The crew searching knows what happened, nothing more. Although a little, it performs localized searches worse than Google. The crew is improving the engine, which is fantastic news. The search can be funneled using the drop-down menu of regions. It's a little awkward, and the search results are occasionally overly general. Sometimes the ideal outcomes can be far down the list, while less desirable products are displayed first. It's fantastic aside from these sporadic peculiarities; it just takes some getting accustomed to.  

 

Startpage 

If you like Google's results without tracking, StartPage uses Google results, which is good. StartPage was created by Ixquick, an independent search engine that uses its effects in addition to Google's. Some of its features are a proxy service, URL generation, and HTTPS support. The URL generator is a unique function that does away with the cookie requirement. It saves your preferences in a way that respects your privacy. 

 
 

Conclusion: Product that takes Privacy-by-Design in their product lifecycle will undoubtedly have broad customer reach even with little marketing and promotion expenditures as people are actively looking for such companies that respect their privacy first. Data is a crucial insight for businesses to scale in an era where hypothesis and push advertising don't work. But in the end, only companies with adequate data security and privacy-first infrastructure will win the game. 

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