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Blog - Privacy
Jan 25, 2021
Privacy
Decentralization
Nathan Wilcox on How Privacy is Essential For Economic Freedom
Nathan Wilcox is at the center of the struggle between the opportunities and risks of technology, striving to provide economic freedom to people everywhere with privacy and decentralization.
Jan 20, 2021
Privacy
Company Updates
How we built Orchid.com without cookies or other tracking tools
With a few key steps, it’s possible to build a website that doesn’t rely on user tracking and data harvesting.
Jan 19, 2021
Decentralization
Privacy
Pioneer Filmmaker Jamie King on Disinformation and “Reality Wars”
Jamie King’s filmmaking career crosses the arc from his pioneering distribution of the documentary “Steal This Film” to his latest project that analyzes mass manipulation around false memes such as “Stop the Steal.”
Jan 13, 2021
Company Updates
Decentralization
Privacy
Orchid Integrates with WalletConnect
Orchid now supports WalletConnect, a popular open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking.
Jan 11, 2021
Decentralization
Privacy
Franck Nouyrigat on the Future of Democracy and Decentralized Elections
Franck Nouyrigat literally used to spend his weekends helping startups launch. The non-profit he helped found more than a decade ago -- Startup Weekend -- eventually established a presence in more countries than Starbucks and helped build startup communities over weekend-long events.
Jan 5, 2021
Decentralization
Privacy
Yaniv Tal on Organizing Data To Unlock the Potential of Decentralization
Yaniv Tal first understood how decentralization could help solve the world's economic problems, especially resource allocation, during the 2008-2009 financial crisis when many of his talented graduate peers felt like giving up on even searching for a job and being forced to let their potential go to waste.
Dec 17, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
Andreas Antonopoulos on Privacy, Society and “Special” Ethereum
Andreas Antonopoulos has one word of advice for anyone working in blockchain -- privacy.
Dec 14, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
Kurt Rohloff on 9/11 Inspiring a Path to Privacy, Encryption and Military Intelligence
Kurt Rohloff was at engineering grad school during the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 and quickly decided he wanted to play his “small part” in helping national security. It was not long before Kurt was working on projects to support the mission of DARPA, (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and leading teams in the first implementation of a new concept in encryption.
Dec 10, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Orchid’s top privacy tips of 2020
Since Orchid launched in December 2019, concerns about privacy have come to the fore. A global pandemic has upended the way people around the world live, work, learn, and more. In this unprecedented year, the surge in remote work and schooling have heightened awareness of online privacy risks and driven more people than ever to seek out solutions such as VPNs.
Dec 7, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Anne Ahola Ward on SEO, Privacy and a Vindicated Science Project
Anne Ahola Ward may have received a C grade for a school science project when she sewed a watch onto a T-shirt but the CEO of CircleClick Media was vindicated years later when wearables entered the mainstream and boomed.
Nov 18, 2020
Privacy
VPN
"Data Creep" and the ever-expanding universe of targeted ads
You’re not imagining it. Advertisers can now show us what we want before we know we want it.
Nov 16, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Orchid’s “Follow the White Rabbit” Podcast is Hopping Onto Audius
We are thrilled that Audius, the decentralized, community-owned streaming platform, will start this month to carry our very own Follow the White Rabbit podcast.
Nov 10, 2020
Privacy
Blockchain
What’s the best VPN for crypto users?
VPNs were developed to address users' innate desire for privacy -- and therefore, personal autonomy. And though it serves a different use case, cryptocurrency appeals to this same core need.
Nov 2, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Latin America Looks to Blockchain to Improve Human Rights, Reporter Says
Felipe Erazo is an investigative journalist who researched the disappearance of 65,000 people during decades of civil war in his home country of Colombia.
Oct 26, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Indian Crypto Exchange Founder on Financial Censorship
Neeraj Khandelwal co-founded CoinDCX, India's largest cryptocurrency exchange, in response to his own liquidity-starved trading challenges.
Oct 22, 2020
Privacy
VPN
State of privacy: a deep dive into U.S. data protection laws
While the U.S. as a whole lacks a unifying set of rules around online privacy, states and localities have begun to enact numerous, varied approaches with the potential for wildly differing outcomes.
Oct 20, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
David Pan on China’s Impact on Blockchain and Human rights
David Pan is originally from China and moved to the United States three years ago for a masters degree in business journalism. That propelled him to becoming an international business reporter at the largest blockchain and cryptocurrency media publication, Coindesk.
Oct 14, 2020
VPN
Privacy
Decentralization
How to make sure your VPN is working properly
VPN leaks can jeopardize users’ privacy. Here’s how to find them and fix them.
Oct 13, 2020
Company Updates
Privacy
Orchid finishes Q3 with strong momentum and a growing global presence
The past few months have seen major disruption in nearly every sector of the global economy -- and privacy has been particularly prominent. At times it can seem like every policy and business question, from contact tracing to TikTok, touches on privacy.
Oct 13, 2020
VPN
Privacy
Zero Knowledge Pioneer on Mass Adoption of Blockchain and Financial Freedom
Alex Gluchowski grew up in Ukraine where he suffered first hand the blight of hyperinflation as a whole population lost its savings and families were left scrambling to put food on the table. That experience inspired Alex to search for alternatives to the traditional financial system and led him decades later to found Matter Labs, a research and development company pioneering blockchain scalability and privacy solutions.
Oct 6, 2020
VPN
Privacy
Can you protect your privacy by using a VPN to access TikTok or WeChat?
VPNs can allow people to access banned apps -- but they won’t protect you from those apps’ mass data collection
Oct 5, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
Oasis Labs CEO Dawn Song on Building the Responsible Data Economy
Dawn Song is ranked as the most cited scholar on computer security. So when the UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science and CEO of Oasis Labs says she is helping to build a new data privacy paradigm, people pay attention.
Oct 1, 2020
VPN
Privacy
It’s easy for enterprises to get started with Orchid
How to get your whole team set up to use the Internet in privacy with Orchid.
Sep 29, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
Ex-FDIC Regulator On Trust And the Battle of the Social Media Videos
When Jason Brett first arrived at the FDIC, he was greeted with the joke that he should have brought a pillow to work at the sleepy agency. Little did he know that, within a week in that summer of 2008, he would have a front-row seat to what was the largest bank collapse in U.S. history.
Sep 24, 2020
Privacy
VPN
How to protect your privacy on a mobile phone
Digital privacy is elusive unless it extends to the most common gateway to the Internet: mobile devices
Sep 22, 2020
Privacy
Decentralization
Can Technology Be Compassionate? Developer Val Mack Explains How
Val Mack, a Software Architect at Quant Five, and founder of Festival Labs, believes cryptography and blockchain have the power to do social good by protecting privacy and allowing autonomy in what she calls “compassionate technology.”
Sep 15, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Open Source Elections Pioneer on Helping Voters With Technology
Dr. Juan E. Gilbert, a professor at the University of Florida, can recall the disputed U.S. presidential election 20 years ago when fiascos over counting ballots in the Sunshine State left the country in limbo.
Sep 11, 2020
Privacy
VPN
How to protect students’ privacy online, from VR to VPNs
Widespread remote learning has introduced new opportunities as well as new dangers
Sep 8, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Pioneer Programmer Brian J. Fox on Championing Open Source
When Brian J. Fox, Co-founder of Orchid and the original author of the GNU Bash shell, started out as a pioneer programmer, it was the free exchange of creative ideas that drove advances in computer science.
Sep 3, 2020
Privacy
Censorship
Privacy trends in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
As the world continues to deal with the effects of the pandemic, combining good privacy habits with the right digital tools is the best way to preserve privacy
Sep 1, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Beanstalk Ventures Managing Partner Ken Seiff on the dark side of the Internet
With a special guest appearance by Orchid CEO Dr. Steven Waterhouse on this week's episode of Follow the White Rabbit
Aug 31, 2020
VPN
Privacy
What the global VPN market’s explosive growth means for Orchid
Orchid’s decentralized marketplace is positioned to meet surging demand for online privacy.
Aug 27, 2020
VPN
Privacy
How to start using Orchid’s crypto VPN in seconds
Orchid’s unique VPN marketplace lets people reclaim the Internet as a place of freedom and curiosity with the highest level of online privacy. And now it’s easier than ever to get started with Orchid using in-app purchases.
Aug 24, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Richard Muirhead on Blockchain and the New Decentralized Economy
Richard Muirhead has been a Bitcoin believer since as early as 2013. That has provided the partner of Fabric Ventures with a valuable perspective on blockchain and digital assets.
Aug 17, 2020
Decentralization
Privacy
Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett on civil rights and defending democracy
This week on Follow the White Rabbit, Ben speaks with Orchid’s Alex Kehaya on the fight for freedom and civil rights in the context of his own personal journey.
Aug 10, 2020
Privacy
Censorship
Crypto pioneer David Chaum on election security and the decline of democracy
This week on Follow the White Rabbit, Orchid’s Alex Kehaya speaks with David about the future of digital currency, and why he believes democracy is on the decline.
Aug 3, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Cindy Cohn speaks with Orchid about online privacy and the Fourth Amendment
Orchid’s Alex Kehaya had a wide-ranging conversation with the online privacy advocate covering little-known laws, past victories for privacy, the future of encryption, and more.
Jul 28, 2020
VPN
Privacy
How people are reclaiming Internet freedom with Orchid, from Dubai to Ukraine to Venezuela
Jun 10, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Tracking pixels, building blocks of Internet surveillance, explained
The Internet has changed life in ways so profound that it's easy to lose sight of their full extent.
Jun 8, 2020
Privacy
Company Updates
Follow the White Rabbit: Orchid’s privacy podcast
Through weekly interviews, we’re opening up a space for discussion and debate on issues related to privacy
May 26, 2020
Privacy
VPN
DNS-over-https is long overdue -- but people still need Internet privacy tools
News that Chrome and Firefox will adopt default encryption of DNS requests is a step forward for privacy -- but not a panacea
May 1, 2020
Privacy
Censorship
Defending freedom in the time of coronavirus
The world is in the grip of a pandemic. Governments are reacting in different ways, but a common thread that’s emerging is a trend toward greater surveillance and restrictions on movement.
Apr 29, 2020
VPN
Privacy
Can you be tracked using a VPN?
How Orchid can help users avoid online surveillance
Apr 28, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Why Internet privacy matters more than ever
How Orchid is working to restore online privacy for people and businesses
Apr 8, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Blockchain
How Orchid improves privacy using a public blockchain
Orchid is an incentivized privacy network, Open Source project, and consumer VPN service aimed to deliver new levels of privacy. But what does privacy mean? How private is Orchid, which relies on pseudo-anonymous payments on Ethereum?
Mar 30, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Orchid's tips for protecting your privacy while working from home
Privacy is like hygiene: establishing good habits and using the right products can help keep you safe while working from home
Jan 28, 2020
Partnerships
Company Updates
Privacy
It’s #DataPrivacyDay. Ethereal and Orchid are committed to realizing its promise.
As we recognize Data Privacy Day this year, we’re excited to announce that we’ve joined forces with Ethereal as their official privacy partner.
Jan 21, 2020
Privacy
VPN
Company Updates
Get hopping faster: Making privacy easier with QR codes
At Orchid, we’re committed to growing the privacy network so anyone, anywhere can access the Orchid VPN. That’s why we’re excited to announce an improvement to our user interface that simplifies our users’ first steps to get Orchid up and running.
Dec 16, 2019
Company Updates
Privacy
Orchid’s Privacy Network Launches
Start using the decentralized VPN at Orchid.com
Nov 10, 2019
VPN
Privacy
Why Ordinary People Are Turning to VPNs
As governments and corporations around the world move to control our online experiences, VPN usage worldwide is growing at an astronomical pace. But along with this growth, misconceptions about what type of—and why—people are using the technology still abound.