Taking control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But it can be a lot easier—maybe even fun!—if you break it up into smaller tasks and tackle one project at a time. With Opt Out October, EFF wants to help you do just that. Each weekday this month, we're sharing a different step you can take to opt out of big tech's surveillance machine.
Our first tip focuses on establishing some privacy basics. Namely, two security fundamentals: using strong passwords (a password manager helps simplify this) and two-factor authentication for your online accounts. Together, they can significantly improve your online privacy by making it much harder for your data to fall into the hands of a stranger.
Other pointers are designed to cut off access to your data to those who would like to collect it, including disabling ad tracking on your phone (Tip 3), decluttering your apps (Tip 4), and installing Privacy Badger to block online trackers (Tip 6). We also explain how you can request your personal information from data brokers—and learn what they think they know about you (Tip 2).
Online privacy isn’t dead. But tech giants have done their best to make protecting it as annoying as possible. With these incremental tweaks to the services we use, we can throw sand in the gears of the surveillance machine and opt out of the ways tech companies attempt to optimize us into ad-viewing machines. EFF is also pushing companies to make more privacy-protective defaults the norm, but until that happens, it'll be on all of us to dig into the settings.
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