Data Privacy Tech for 2021 (TILvids.com Exclusive)

Well everyone, we've almost done it, another year in the books. And well...it's certainly been a year, hasn't it? The environment has seen better days to be sure, politics in general is messy to say the least, and oh yes, who could forget our lovely global pandemic? But despite all of that, there are still things to celebrate. The state of tech for the privacy-conscious is doing surprisingly well, and so I thought I'd make a short video to highlight some of my favorite open-source and open-web tech tools. Ubuntu Linux is, for me, both an end and a beginning. I've used Linux on-and-off since the late-90s, starting with Redhat Linux 6, but it was always a short and torrid affair, with both parties drifting apart as these things often do. That was until Ubuntu Linux 19.10. With that release, I finally found a Linux distro that I could easily make my daily-driver, and that's been the case now for the last few years. The latest release of Ubuntu, version 20.10 has been just as pleasant, an