Check out www.osintchallenges.com for a bit of OSINT action lots of interesting challenges. All free no sign up #osint

I'm always bemused when a news outlet posts a photo of a person who doesn't want to be named. You'd think by extension they don't want their pictures posted. #privacy

If you like OSINT this is a pretty good tool for emails

Behind the Email

Behind the Email | Public Profile & Career Search

Instantly find career history, education, and public profile signals from any email address. Professional OSINT for lead research and verification.

Few free checks but also a paid service. #osint

good intro to online privacy video

Really good article on data privacy and Data PrivacyWeek https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2026/01/26/data-privacy-in-a-world-built-to-collect-everything/

Some might worry about their privacy being eroded with little awareness that the free app they signed up for leaked data to unseen entities right before their nose. #PrivacyAwareness

Happy Data Privacy Week folks. This year resolve to be intentional with what apps and platforms you signup for and minimize your digital presence even just a little.

The Hacker News

LastPass Warns of Fake Maintenance Messages Targeting Users’ Master Passwords

LastPass reports an active phishing campaign using fake maintenance emails and spoofed domains to trick users into revealing their master passwords.

LastPass Password Keeper Phishing Scam doing the rounds.

Another day and another data breach. This time Australian school kids. It's not the email breach or even the hashed passwords that are the issue. It's what the malicious actors will then use them for. Pivoting into different accounts or opening accounts etc with them. Hoping to educate and reduce organisations digital exposure with education!

Privacy Reboot

What the Victorian School Data Breach Reveals About Digital Exposure Risk - Privacy Reboot

The Victorian school data breach shows how digital exposure risk continues beyond technical fixes and why leadership awareness matters.

In 2026 I'm looking to commercialize my blog and maybe even doing some consulting around Online Privacy and risk of over exposure.

Privacy Reboot

Digital Exposure Risk for Organisations: Prevent Account Compromise and Reputational Harm - Privacy Reboot

Learn how boards, schools, and leaders can identify and manage digital exposure risk to organisations to protect people and data.

The worst part about our smartphones isn't that we get endlessly surveilled, tracked and have our data harvested. It's the fact that we have normalized it amd for the most part we don't really care as long as it's convenient.

The most secure data is the data that isn't stored, isn't communicated and deleted after use. #Privacy #PrivacyReboot

There are levels of appetite for risk when it comes to entrusting people or companies with your data and everyone has a different appetite for it. I could never imagine voluntarily giving over my DNA to those ancestry type companies that trace your lineage and hoping they look after the info and never get breached. That's a no from me. #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #PricacyReboot

Privacy and social media really aren't compatible in my humble opinion. There can be no reasonable expectations of privacy when online in any form.

Well the social media ban is imminent for under 16s in Australia. I'm all for moderation of kids using social media. Not so much for the facial recognition and biometrics database being managed and held by private companies that have regularly shown to be pretty poor at handling your privacy. I don't have the answers but I can see it going wrong on a couple of fronts.

There's a real discomfort that I feel when I think of how we are being comoditized by companies that on the face of it aren't in the data game. For example you buy a car and your car logs and tracks your driving metrics not because they are good safety conscious corporations but so they can look at your data and see where you have been geographically. They sell your data and deal with it in opaque ways. It may be harmless and it may be benign but most of us will never know. To me it's bullshit of the highest order that you have to get an app (and in some cases pay for it) to drive your car with a subscription for an app so you can set and forget. It'd be somewhat tolerable if you knew the company wasn't on selling your data it but there's no guarantees. Privacy Matters

Don't just focus on your privacy and online security. Where you can help your family and friends. An elderly associate had their FB account taken over today and their mobile phone number was sim swapped leaving thrm unable to restore their account and vulnerable to all manner of criminality. Trying to work through that stuff with a non tech savvy person can be challenging but the risk of not locking down their accounts properly with MFA and a simple sim lock with their telco is costing them now.

There's no denying that pre installed and mainstream apps are convenient. Privacy is a pain in the backside. It can be cumbersome and inconvenient. It depends on you the individual to make a decision on your threat model. You'll find the middle ground. Just start by tidying up your online presence, even just a little bit.

It's pretty crazy that you can spend $1000+ dollars on a phone and even then the product, Android, Meta and other apps you use can be surveiling you for marketing purposes. Opt out where you can. Consider linux and maybe a dumb phone or grapheneOS. Protect your data where you can. #SurveillanceCapitalism

When did you first realize that social media and the big brand tech companies were out to monetize you as their product? For me it was probably only really the last 3 - 5 years. I never really thought of the motivations of a company to let you use a product for free. I didn't realize I was the product and my data was their incentive. #surveillancecapitalism #privacy