Privacy is sometimes viewed as a lost cause. Advertisements for items appear on your facebook page that were mentioned in emails sent to you from complete strangers. Never mind three-letter official law enforcement agencies, the commercial universe knows more about you than you know yourself. Amazon has known for years what you want before you know you want it: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/rock-center/50020547 .
Nothing will guarantee 100% privacy and security, but there are many actions you can and probably should take, to limit the exposure of your private and confidential information. Don't give up yet. There are ways to maintain a high level of privacy in your person to person communications, if you want to use them.
The following are some candidates for a series of classes on the available methods, software, and systems, and how to use them.
0. General Security Recommendations: enable 2FA (avoid SMS), notification, log events,
1. Private Email: HushMail, ProtonMail
2. Social Media applications: suggestions
3. SSH (Secure Shell): one of the most powerful security tools
4. Private cloud storage for your files
5. Anonymizing your Internet presence using TAILS
6. Private networking without the Internet
If you have a topic that should be covered and is of interest to you, let me know by sending an email to shukong @ gmail.com .
General security topics from http://www.darkreading.com/operations/-cybersecurity-user-training-that-sticks-3-steps/a/d-id/1327556?_mc=sm_dr&hootPostID=2c65100806ad43e114e315ec410dd3e2
https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/resources
