Private Thoughts

The Privacy Bundle (Basic Edition) Everyone needs privacy software. You just can’t live in our digital world and be safe, without a few special tools and utilities and services that help to protect you. As we’ve been building Priiv for the last few years, we thought a lot about this.  We know a lot of…     Read More

Introducing The Privacy Bundles When we were first thinking about creating The Privacy Co., our goal was to figure out how to help people protect their privacy. It wasn’t initially obvious exactly how we could do that. The loss of privacy due to technology is a large, diffuse problem. Ultimately, we concluded that people need…     Read More

PRESS RELEASE New York, NY August 12, 2020 Contact: Joe Bel Bruno, JBB Media joe.belbruno@jbbmedia.com 212-433-0123 The Privacy Co. Announces Priiv® App for iOS, Enabling Anyone to Take Back Control over Personal Privacy and Data Security Startup exits ‘Stealth Mode’ after raising $3M from K2 Intelligence FIN and its founders. The Privacy Co. today announced…     Read More

Privacy is a Process Privacy is not a simple problem. So we could not build a simple solution.  Your privacy has suffered death by a 1000 cuts. Location shared by your weather app. Habits shared by your browser. Viewing patterns shared by your TV. Purchase history shared by your credit card. Media tastes shared by…     Read More

Priiv is Now Available for IOS Today we’ve made the Priiv app for iOS publicly available for the first time. It is the result of almost three years of hard work, and we think it’s an important tool that will help a lot of people regain control over their personal and data privacy. You can…     Read More

Privacy Levels The amount of privacy that someone needs – as well as the effort required to get and preserve that privacy – can vary dramatically from one person to the next. This is not surprising, as people have very different lifestyles and preferences, and not everyone faces the same kinds of threats nor the…     Read More

The Risks of Privacy Loss Many of us have become numb to being tracked. We know that creepy things are going on when we browse the internet, that our phones share our location, that devices in our homes are listening and watching us, and many apps misuse our contacts, photos, and much more. Yet we…     Read More

Privacy Tools in Priiv Managing and protecting your privacy requires knowledge, actions, and tools. For that reason, we highlight, recommend, and review apps and services both in the Priiv app and on our content site, theprivacyco.wpengine.comm. This post describes how we think about selecting and recommending tools, and the relationships we have with some of…     Read More

Understanding PriivScore Everyone wants privacy. But figuring out how to get it leads to some questions: How much privacy do you have? How much privacy do you need? Can privacy be measured?  How much additional privacy do your actions give you? What is your goal when working to protect yourself? When have you reached your…     Read More