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Life Kit

The Life Kit Guide To Online Privacy

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business, Kids & Family

4.5 β€’ 4.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

NPR's Laurel Wamsley talked with the experts about how to protect your information β€” from your text messages to your location β€” while you're on the phone and computer.

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0:00.0

This is NPR's life kit.

0:02.0

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

0:05.5

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

0:08.6

get a better handle on their digital lives.

0:10.8

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

0:14.0

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

0:16.5

That's simply not true.

0:18.0

The people who tell you that they have nothing to hide

0:20.5

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

0:23.0

Eva Galbrin is the Director of Cybersecurity

0:25.3

at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

0:27.3

She says she hears that a lot from people

0:29.4

that they're not that interesting

0:30.8

and that they don't have anything worth hiding.

0:32.8

But she says we all express different aspects of ourselves

0:35.8

in different parts of our lives.

0:37.3

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

0:40.3

still lock our doors.

0:42.3

We still close our windows and have shading on them.

0:45.3

We still don't run around sharing our passwords

0:50.3

or our credit card numbers with just about anybody.

0:54.3

These are things that we do every day

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