Long Time, No See!
Welcome back to the NBTV Newsletter!
Wow, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? We've been super busy building our video content, and — get this — we've hit 800,000 subscribers across all platforms! That's a massive shoutout to you for valuing privacy. Thank you for being here :) Now let’s try to shift culture 💪
We're bringing back our newsletter regularly for a key reason: it's getting harder to reach you with new video alerts, and we want to make sure that we have a way to reach you all directly, so that you can stay updated with our privacy tips and latest tutorials. At this stage the plan is to send out a newsletter every Friday, so keep your eyes peeled!
Latest video:
Every picture and video you post spills secrets about you, maybe even revealing where you live. The process of connecting all these dots of our online activities is a process known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. It's the practice of using all the information available online such as public records, reviews we write, email addresses, usernames, location check ins, and social media, to link together the breadcrumbs of someone's digital life. It’s a tool that’s increasingly relied on by governments and companies alike, to learn more about people and create profiles on them.
Jose Monkey has 1.7 million TikTok followers, and shows us how he finds people's exact location just by doing OSINT on their videos. We explain the dangers of our modern culture of oversharing, and teach people best practices for posting photos and videos online, to make sure that they’re not giving away more information than they intend.
This Week’s Privacy Tips:
When posting: eliminate any unnecessary writing in the background of your videos and photos.
Don’t post pictures of your keys — There are techniques for taking a photograph of a key and replicating it from that.
If you’re going to record videos outside, don’t do it anywhere near your home or the place where you work.
The more you move around on camera, the more things you might show unintentionally, such as your address or identifying landmarks. Don’t move if you don’t have to.
If you find our tips useful, please spread the word!