EFF Says Shop Safe Will Harm Consumers Not Protect Them
Have you heard of the SHOP SAFE Act? It’s a Bill before Congress designed to protect you from the online sale of harmful counterfeit products, like toys that break down and present a health hazard. While this sounds like a noble goal, America’s leading non-profit privacy advocate, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has slammed the Bill […]
Android Users Can Now Transfer MySudo Accounts
Now you can easily export your MySudo account from iOS to Android and vice versa using a simple QR code. This will give you access to your MySudo account from both operating systems and act as a backup. Good use cases for this new Android functionality (it’s always been in iOS) are transferring your MySudo […]
The US Data Privacy Law “Floor”: What Deserves Basic Protections?
The New York Times recently did a deep dive into the United States’ lack of a national data privacy law and why it matters, and we want to drill down on some key points here. The article describes the four basic areas of a user’s data privacy that should be protected as a minimum, and calls these areas the “floor” of any future national […]
Dump of 1 Million Stolen Credit Cards for Free Reinforces Value of MySudo Virtual Cards
How about the cybercriminals who recently published one million users’ credit card details for free to launch their new “criminal marketplace”? Calling it a “promotion of unprecedented generosity” it sounded as breezy and innocent as a farmer giving away free tomatoes to bring punters to a market stall. Except it’s not breezy. Or innocent. It is in […]
How MySudo will Make Decentralized Identity Usable for Most People
Decentralized identity (also known as self-sovereign identity) is the future—and our secure digital identity, the Sudo, at the core of MySudo, is opening up the possibility of decentralized identity for most people. Decentralized identity is maturing. Many companies, organizations and individuals have been working to establish open standards (e.g. W3C [1][2] and Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) [3][4]) for […]
Streaming Services Are Invading America’s Privacy: New Research
Streaming services are incredibly popular, especially since COVID-19 has confined most of us to our couches and kids to home learning. But screen time comes with privacy and safety risks since streaming services and devices suck up a lot of personal data and use it in ways we have no idea about. It’s not only our personal […]
New Research Puts Case for Privacy by (Re)Design for Apps (But You Still Need MySudo)
Mobile apps are packed with our highly sensitive personal data. But new research by South African lawyer and lecturer Dusty-Lee Donnelly says privacy by design and other standard privacy protections for mobile app data (the consent model and regulations and compliance) just aren’t enough to protect our data privacy. Donnelly says privacy byHow w design, the interdisciplinary, systems engineering approach based on seven key […]
The Best Way to Solve the Data Privacy Problem
There’s no question we need to solve the data privacy problem. Consumers are fed up with surveillance capitalism, data breaches and criminal data abuse. We started Anonyome Labs (the makers of MySudo) because we believe the pendulum has swung too far; that people have lost control of their personal information. Even back in 2014 when we started the company, we could see privacy was going to […]
T-Mobile Data Breach Highlights Huge Value of MySudo Telephony
No wonder so many people use MySudo for safe telephony when the major carriers cannot protect their customer data. That was exactly our thought when we read that the personal information of nearly 55 million current, former and prospective customers of T-Mobile US Inc. was caught in a mass data breach in August. The latest figures show around 13 million current postpaid customers, nearly 41 million […]
Can We Achieve “Digital Herd Immunity”?
Have you ever thought about data privacy as a civic duty? That if we each took a mutually beneficial community approach to data protection, we’d achieve a “digital herd immunity” that could fight the privacy “pandemic” borne from toxic data collection and abuse? It’s an interesting idea from Carissa Véliz, Oxford University associate professor in digital ethics and author […]
Back to School: How to Use MySudo as a School Parent
As parents, we all want to keep our children safe. Protecting their privacy is a huge part of that. As we head into a new school year, MySudo is a powerful tool for protecting your family’s privacy as you navigate another busy year of classroom and co-curricular learning, sports, hobbies and socializing. If you haven’t heard of MySudo, it’s […]
College Students: Top 10 Reasons to Use MySudo This Year
Summer’s over and school’s about to start. These are exciting days for College students, especially Freshmen. College days can be fun and full, with some worries along the way. One thing we don’t want you to worry about is your data privacy and cybersafety while you get busy earning your diploma or degree. MySudo is the world’s only […]
Back-To-School Shopping With MySudo
Use MySudo for your back-to-school online shopping to mitigate risk and protect your personal info. Create a Shopping Sudo profile, use the private browser to search for supplies, and when you’re ready to check out, use your Sudo email address, phone number, and virtual card! Talk, text, email, browse, and pay safely and securely – […]
7 Risks to Your Privacy from Back-to-School Shopping Online
Hey parents, as you prepare the kids for a new school year, we want to remind you of the risks to your privacy and safety from shopping for school supplies online. These risks apply to any online shopping you do, but we’ve framed them here for the back-to-school buying frenzy. Let’s go through the realities and […]
What is the Privacy Paradox?
The privacy paradox is the disconnect between consumer concerns about privacy and their actual actions to protect it. Given the extent of the global data privacy crisis, protecting the privacy of your sensitive data online should now be an essential aspect of daily life. But clearly not everyone is doing it. One significant study of the privacy paradox—or the “dichotomy between privacy attitude and behavior”—couldn’t categorically […]