Find out how to set up an alert if your passwords are leaked online; compare news in several news sources at once; discover how to search the web without that being used to profile you.
Check all of this out below:
All Sides
A news tool (mostly focused in content from the USA and UK) that helps the user search for a news topic and see how different news outlets portray that topic (including publicly recognised news sources from the left to the right and everything in between).
They also have an interesting “Rate your own bias” tool.
This is for: everyone.
Have I Been Pwned
A free tool that lets you know if your email address, password and other personal data has been exposed and is now publicly accessible — exposed to the risk of hackers using your credentials to sign into your exposed accounts and access personal or financial data. This allows us to act quickly in changing our passwords to stay safe.
You can sign up to be notified for free. I’ve gotten warnings for breaches in LinkedIn, MyFitnessPal, and Disqus, and 3 others just in 2019.
This is for: everyone.
The Interface
Casey Newton from The Verge writes an incredible newsletter about “the intersection of social media and democracy”. There will always be at least one news story in this newsletter that will make you click through. When I grow up, I want to be like Casey Newton, and that’s saying a lot.
This is for: everyone.
DuckDuckGo
It’s a search engine, like Google. But it doesn’t track you, or collect your personal data. They make money off ads, but they choose which ads to show you depending on what you’re searching for, not what they know about you (which is nothing).
Plus, their blog is pretty awesome.
This is for: everyone.
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