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title: Digital Privacy
description: Protecting yourself online: encryption, tracking, GDPR, and anonymous browsing.
category: programming-tech
url: /subcategory/programming-tech/digital-privacy
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# Digital Privacy

Protecting yourself online: encryption, tracking, GDPR, and anonymous browsing.

## Available Subjects

### Anonymous Browsing

Anonymous browsing encompasses technologies and practices that protect user identity and activity online. You will understand how to use virtual private networks (VPNs), Tor, and secure browsers to prevent tracking and maintain digital anonymity.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 2 books, 1 courses, 2 websites

[Learn Anonymous Browsing](/subject/anonymous-browsing)

### Data Privacy Rights

Data privacy rights concern an individual's legal authority to control how their personal information is collected and used. You will understand your rights under major regulations, how to request data deletion, and how to limit corporate data collection.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 2 books, 1 courses, 4 websites

[Learn Data Privacy Rights](/subject/data-privacy-rights)

### Encryption Basics

Encryption is the process of encoding information to prevent unauthorized access. You will understand the differences between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, how secure protocols like HTTPS work, and how to encrypt files and communications.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 2 videos, 2 books, 1 websites

[Learn Encryption Basics](/subject/encryption-basics)

### GDPR & Privacy Laws

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar laws govern how organizations handle personal data. You will understand compliance requirements, user consent frameworks, data breach notification rules, and the legal obligations of businesses operating globally.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 1 books, 2 courses, 3 websites

[Learn GDPR & Privacy Laws](/subject/gdpr-and-privacy-laws)

### Online Tracking & Cookies

Online tracking involves monitoring user behavior across websites to build profiles for advertising. You will understand how cookies, device fingerprinting, and trackers operate, and how to configure browser settings and extensions to block them.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 3 websites

[Learn Online Tracking & Cookies](/subject/online-tracking-and-cookies)

### Running LLMs Locally

Running open-weight language models on your own hardware keeps data private and costs predictable. You will learn model formats and quantization, memory and GPU requirements, tools such as llama.cpp and Ollama, and how to choose a model for a task.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 8 websites

[Learn Running LLMs Locally](/subject/running-llms-locally)

### Self-Hosting & Home Lab

Self-hosting runs your own services instead of renting them. You will learn home networking, Docker-based deployment, reverse proxies, backups and security for a personal server or home lab.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 6 websites

[Learn Self-Hosting & Home Lab](/subject/self-hosting-and-home-lab)

### Social Media Privacy

Social media privacy involves managing the visibility of personal information on social networking platforms. You will understand how to configure platform privacy settings, audit third-party app permissions, and minimize the digital footprint you expose publicly.

**Difficulty:** Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

**Resources:** 2 courses

[Learn Social Media Privacy](/subject/social-media-privacy)

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