Another Reason to Use MySudo: Data Breaches Hit Record High in 2021
In yet another argument for the value of using the all-in-one privacy app MySudo, publicly reported data breaches in the US hit a record high of 1,862 incidents in 2021 – a 68 percent increase over 2020, and a 23 percent increase over the last record high set in 2017. The data comes from the non-profit Identity […]
Our Top 5 Most Popular Blog Posts from 2021
Before we dive into the raft of data privacy topics for 2022—and there will be plenty—let’s take a quick look at our five most popular blog posts from 2021 across both our blogs: 5 Ways to Make Best Use of your 9 Sudo Profiles MySudo gives you up to 9 separate Sudo profiles which you can use to compartmentalize and […]
MySudo Celebrates Data Privacy Week 2022
At Anonyome Labs, the makers of MySudo, we’re gearing up to celebrate Data Privacy Week 2022, from January 24 to 28. The week-long event is an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. And that goal aligns nicely with what we do here at Anonyome Labs and MySudo. Data Privacy Week is […]
Even With All Privacy Settings Maxed on Your Apple Devices, You Still Need MySudo
A useful article from The Washington Post shows Apple iPhone and iPad users how to use their devices with maximum privacy under iOS 15. Apple has positioned itself as a major privacy advocate, but as The Washington Post points out, actually making your Apple devices as private as possible takes some time and effort. We’ve given you a quick […]
Anonyome Labs Honored on Best Tech Startup List For 4th Consecutive Year
We are yet again honored to have made it on to the prestigious The Tech Tribune’s Best Tech Startups in Salt Lake City list for the fourth year in a row. We have now made the list in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The annual list evaluates tech startups in a range of industries based on: revenue […]
What’s the Difference Between Cybersafety and Cybersecurity?
Some terms are used interchangeably so frequently it’s easy to forget they have different meanings. Cybersafety and cybersecurity are two of those terms. Both safety and security essentially mean being free from danger, injury or risk. Most dictionaries give one as an alternative for the other. But in the ‘cyber’ context, which means relating to […]
What is Privacy?
At Anonyome Labs, the makers of MySudo all-in-one privacy app, we can see privacy is a defining issue of this decade and the global data privacy crisis is worsening. But the concept of privacy is subjective, and definitions of it and conversations about it vary across people, jurisdictions and countries. So let’s get to grips with what we mean by privacy and why it […]
9 Reasons Why Data Privacy Matters
Data privacy is subjective and complicated, but it definitely does matter – and more so every year as cybersecurity threats increase and a federal privacy law remains a pipedream in the United States. “More and more data about each of us is being generated faster and faster from more and more devices, and we can’t keep up. It’s a […]
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 […]
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 […]