gravity-forms-gdpr-data-export-eraser

Gravity Forms personal data exporter and eraser

When WordPress 4.9.6 launched on May 17, 2018 it came with new tools for exporting and erasing personal data that you may have collected (you know, GDPR and all). But Gravity Forms as of version 2.3.2 doesn’t integrate with these tools. Fortunately, it is really easy to write your own exporters and erasers.

May 24, 2018 · 2 min · Bjørn Johansen
secure-email

Secure email: Encrypt and sign your emails with PGP/GnuPG

Email is fundamentally insecure. There are such a plethora of issues with it, it is crazy to think about the kind of information sent with it. It is probably even crazier when you realize we’ve had a solution for sending secure email since 1991.

May 25, 2017 · 5 min · Bjørn Johansen
hunter-tracker

DNS privacy: Use a DNS provider that doesn’t track you

Many ISPs and other DNS providers are slow or inject ads, track you, hijack DNS queries or do other nasty stuff. To mitigate this, you should use a fast, reliable and free service that respects your DNS privacy.

March 25, 2017 · 3 min · Bjørn Johansen
self-destruction

Self-destructing cookies: Real, forced Do-Not-Track for your privacy

This is the second post in my series of posts on some of the tools I use to stay a little safer and protect my privacy online. With self-destructing cookies, you get a clean sheet even with those who don’t respect the Do-Not-Track header.

March 24, 2017 · 3 min · Bjørn Johansen
signal

Secure messaging on your phone with the Signal app

I’m running a series of posts on some of the tools I use to stay a little safer and protect my privacy online. Here’s how you can get much better secure messaging on your phone using the Signal app.

March 20, 2017 · 5 min · Bjørn Johansen
analytics

Tracking visitors with adblockers

More and more users are using adblockers or surfing the web via private browsing with tracking protection. But this also affects your web analytics, as the blockers also will block analytics tracking – not only third party services like Google Analytics, but also self-hosted solutions like Piwik.

January 23, 2017 · 4 min · Bjørn Johansen
Mozilla

Keep the internet healthy – Internet for people, not profit.

“ A healthy Internet needs all of us”, Mozilla states. And they’re right.

January 20, 2017 · 1 min · Bjørn Johansen