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Picture this: you open your laptop, visit a medical website, then a job portal, then your bank. Your ISP just logged all three. Encrypted DNS stops that — and setting it up takes about five minutes.
You don't need to spend money to take back your privacy. Every tool on this list is free, open source, and works in India. Most of them take less than ten minutes to set up.
Tor isn't just for hackers or whistleblowers. It's a legitimate privacy tool, it's legal in India, and most people use it wrong. Here's what happened when I started using it properly, and what you should know before you try.
So you searched for running shoes once, and now every app on your phone is showing you sneaker ads. That's not coincidence. Here's the machinery behind digital ad tracking in India, and whether you can actually escape it.
Your smart speaker is always listening. Your Wi-Fi camera is phoning home to servers you've never heard of. Indian households are filling up with connected gadgets and barely anyone's asking what data leaves the house.
Eighty-three percent of Indians reuse the same password across multiple accounts. Here are real-world methods for building strong, memorable passwords without losing your mind.
February 2026 was a busy month for privacy in India — a fintech breach exposed 2.3 million records, the Data Protection Board got its full bench, and UPI fraud numbers got worse. Here's what happened.
Ever wonder how much your Android phone tells Google about you before you've even opened an app? Probably more than you'd be comfortable with. Here's how to set up your phone so it stops oversharing.
Indian e-commerce platforms promise personalized shopping while quietly building profiles that would make a private investigator jealous. Here's a flat look at what Flipkart, Amazon India, Meesho, and others actually collect — and what they do with it.
Most people assume AI in India is still experimental, mostly chatbots and Netflix suggestions. They're wrong. Indian companies are already using machine learning to decide your loan eligibility, set the prices you see online, and scan your face in public. Here's what that means for your data.
That free VPN on your phone is probably selling your browsing history right now. Here's what these apps actually do with your data, why their business model depends on exploiting you, and the handful of free tiers that won't stab you in the back.
Only 38% of Indian internet users could identify a phishing email in a recent nationwide survey. On Safer Internet Day 2026, that number should trouble us all -- and it should also tell us exactly where to start.
A Pune man lost Rs 16 lakh in 47 minutes. His phone just stopped working. That's how SIM swap fraud begins -- silent, fast, and devastating. Here's what happened, and what you should know before it happens to you.
Your neighbor might be on your Wi-Fi right now. Default passwords, outdated encryption, and forgotten settings leave most Indian home networks wide open. Here's how to actually lock yours down.
That six-digit code your bank texts you? It travels through a telecom system built in the 1970s. SIM swaps, SS7 holes, and plain old trickery make SMS OTP a shaky second factor -- here is what actually works better.
You ported out of Airtel two years ago, but they've still got your Aadhaar scan, your call logs, and a record of every cell tower you pinged. Here's what actually happened when I tried to get Indian telecoms to delete my data.
I deleted my Flipkart app for a month. When I reinstalled it, the app already knew what I'd been browsing on Myntra. Here's the uncomfortable truth about how Indian tech companies follow you across the internet.
Fourteen billion UPI transactions a month and people are still entering their PIN to 'receive' money. Here's what nobody bothers to explain about collect request scams, fake helplines, QR code tricks, and SIM swaps — plus what actually works when you've already been hit.
Most VPN advice for Indian users ignores the one thing that changed everything -- CERT-In's 2022 logging directive. Here's what actually matters when picking a VPN now, and the ten services I'd consider.
I got tired of recycled Aadhaar safety tips that skip the parts that actually matter, so I wrote down everything I've learned from years of cleaning up identity theft messes in India.
India's DPDP Act took over six years and four drafts to become law — here's what it actually says, who it hits hardest, and why most people I've talked to still don't know their rights under it.
