Articles tagged "Privacy"

On May 25th 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect.

This European regulation is designed to better protect citizens from data breaches and privacy violations. The new law is amongst other things stipulating how companies must handle their customers' data.

Many of our customers chose Greenhost exactly because privacy has always been one of our core values. As a result there are not many significant changes we have to make. However, we do want to take the opportunity to scrutinise some of our designs and see in which ways we can still do better in safeguarding your privacy.

Last week, a small Greenhost-delegation visited the Internet Freedom Festival in order to meet other people active in the field of Privacy and Internet Freedom, and get new ideas to improve upon our services. Inspired by a great session by Daniel Khan Gillmor we immediately set up a new DNS-over-TLS server, allowing advanced users to use the internet more privately.

The Domain Name System (DNS) underpins most of our use of the Internet, by providing a way to look up IP addresses from domain names. By design, it provides very little privacy. While more and more sites use encryption once the...

To meet the standards we did a necessary update on our SMTP mail server on the 21th of December. This means that from now on you can't send any unidentified emails from a non existing email address. The exceptions to this are the following types of addresses: webmaster@…, noreply@…, no-reply@…, wordpress@…, cron@…, and root@….

Do you still want to use a non existing e-mail address you can simply add a wildcard/catch-all email address. When that is set, all the emails to addresses on this specific domain will be accepted and email can be sent from all possible addresses.
You can create a wild...

Your smart phone contains a lot of your private data. But do you know how and where your data is stored? Who has access to it? How do you protect your data from third parties that are trying to collect it?

Smart phone operating systems do not give you much control over your data by default, but with minimal effort you can gain control over your data and your mobile device's behaviour. Following up the six tips below will make it a lot harder for data hoarding advertising networks to get to your private data and helps protect you against dragnet surveillance.

As you could read in our blog post from a couple of months ago we have been working on incorporating Let's Encrypt's free TLS certificates in our hosting environment.

TLS certificates are needed for a safe and good website. With it, you will have improved security, more privacy and higher search engine rankings. Please read our previous blog post for a detailed summary of how TLS certificates work.

Today (December 19, 2016), we are pleased to announce that these certificates are now available for everyone in a public beta. Using TLS makes your website more secure. You can recognise that TLS...

On 18 May 2015, Greenhost signed a joint open letter together with 64 civil society organizations expressing concerns about Internet.org and asking Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to defend Net neutrality, Privacy, Security and other rights in relation to Internet.org. You can read the letter below:

Governments from more than 100 countries gather this week in The Hague at the Global Conference on Cyberspace to talk about a free and secure Internet. But a free and secure Internet can never exist as long as these governments continue their mass surveillance practices.