# Re-acquainting Yourself with Privacy Online
by Seth Kenlon
Last year, I wrote down some [tips on locking down data and protecting
privacy](
https://opensource.com/life/16/1/how-increase-online-privacy),
discussing PGP email encryption, ownCloud, and the concept of online identity.
The main issue I was trying to address in that article was active
invasion of privacy; the kind of privacy you care about when you're -
as the saying goes - "dancing like no one's watching". When you *know*
there's something in your email that you don't necessarily want to
leave out on the table for everyone who wanders by to see, or when you
know that some files you're keeping contain controversial opinions or
statements that you'd rather keep to yourself for now, that's when you
break out ownCloud or [nextCloud](
https://nextcloud.com) or use GnuPG.
Let's face it, though, most people think of this kind of privacy as
"good enough". After all, billions of HTTP requests and emails and
instant messages and social media posts happen every hour of every
day; who's got time to rummage through *your* stuff? And even if they
did happen to target you, personally, what are the chances of them
finding anything you'd actually care about?
What we need to do is to be as subversive in our resistance to invasion of privacy as those people and companies who are inserting themselves into our personal lives.
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