This is NPR's life kit.

This episode, we're digging in to digital privacy and security.

The goal is to help regular people with no special technical skills

get a better handle on their digital lives.

A lot of people might think this is not especially important for them.

I'm boring, they'll say, what do I have to hide?

That's simply not true.

The people who tell you that they have nothing to hide

are people who just haven't thought about it very carefully.

Eva Galbrin is the Director of Cybersecurity

at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

She says she hears that a lot from people

that they're not that interesting

and that they don't have anything worth hiding.

But she says we all express different aspects of ourselves

in different parts of our lives.

Most of us, in spite of the fact that we have nothing to hide,

still lock our doors.

We still close our windows and have shading on them.

We still don't run around sharing our passwords

or our credit card numbers with just about anybody.

These are things that we do every day

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