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12 WebSnips articles on privacy & security.
12 published articles
How to Audit a browser extension's permissions — a practical, example-driven guide with honest tool comparisons and a clear place for WebSnips. Written for Lawyers.
How to avoid vendor lock-in with your notes — a practical guide for individuals and teams who want to keep their personal knowledge base portable, format-independent, and recoverable regardless of which application or service they use.
How to back up your notes safely — a practical guide for individuals and professionals who want reliable, secure backups of their personal knowledge base, covering backup strategies, encrypted backup tools, and recovery testing for note-taking applications.
How to capture sensitive research securely — a practical guide for researchers, journalists, legal professionals, and privacy-conscious individuals who need to gather and store sensitive information without creating avoidable exposure through insecure capture tools or storage practices.
How to choose a private web clipper — a practical guide for privacy-conscious researchers, journalists, and professionals who want to clip and save web content without exposing their browsing patterns, source materials, or clipped content to third-party services.
How to comply with GDPR in your knowledge base — a practical guide for teams and organizations who store personal data in their internal wikis, documentation systems, and knowledge management tools, covering data minimization, retention policies, access controls, and subject rights.
How to do research without being tracked — a practical guide for journalists, researchers, lawyers, and privacy-conscious individuals who need to gather information on sensitive topics without creating a digital trail that links them to their research subjects.
How to keep client research confidential — a practical guide for consultants, lawyers, researchers, and agency professionals who collect and store research about clients and need to protect that information from unauthorized access, data breaches, and inadvertent disclosure.
How to keep legal research privileged and secure — a practical guide for lawyers, paralegals, and legal teams who need to protect attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, and client confidentiality in their research and documentation practices.
How to keep your notes encrypted — a practical guide for privacy-conscious individuals, researchers, and professionals who want end-to-end encrypted note storage that prevents third-party access to their personal knowledge base.
How to protect sources as a journalist — a practical guide covering the technical, operational, and legal practices that protect confidential sources from identification, covering secure communication channels, research privacy, and document handling.
How to self-host your knowledge base — a practical guide for individuals and teams who want full control over their knowledge management system by running it on their own infrastructure, eliminating third-party access to notes, documents, and captured research.