Secure Your Personal Data With These 4 Privacy-First Applications

Are you tired of big tech companies surveilling and selling your data? Here are 4 alternatives applications that put an end to that.

Trevor-Indrek Lasn
DataSeries

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Arcane Maps Beta — https://arcanemaps.com/

There’s been a tremendous surge in privacy awareness in recent years and for a good cause. The biggest growing trend has been the Reddit community /r/privacy, with over 500 thousand subscribers. Yes, you read it correctly, over five-hundred-thousand subscribers. Let that settle in.

Privacy is a fast-growing market with no signs of slowing down, expect to see a new wave of privacy-first applications to hit the app stores and the web.

Reddit privacy subreddit — https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/

There are essentially two reasons why the privacy-oriented movement is growing;

  • (a) clandestine privacy policies.
  • (b) the miss-use of personal data by selling it to third-parties.

It’s a two-sided blade, more data equals better products, on the other hand, companies tend to make short-sighted decisions to make short-term and profits by selling personal data of their users. I don’t blame them…

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