In the article entitled The Spy in your Pocket over at Privacy Snapper, we spoke about some of the problems with Bit, the name we gave to your mobile device. Now, we begin looking into some tools you can give Bit to ward off those looking to access your personal information. This article highlights five free applications you can add to your mobile device to increase your personal privacy. There are many great privacy applications available for your mobile device, but to join our list of five, the applications needed to be free for users and be available on both Android and IOS devices.

 

1. SpiderOak Cloud Storage

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With the increasing use of clouds for information storage, SpiderOakhas created a ‘zero-knowledge’ cloud that focuses on user privacy. What is special about SpiderOak is that all of your information is encrypted before it travels to the cloud. The decryption key is held locally by you, not even SpiderOak can read the information you have stored. Users receive 2GB of storage for free. If you wish to upgrade to a paid subscription, you can get access to a terabyte of storage space. It is important to note that the mobile application is read-only at present time. While you can access your secure information on the cloud, you cannot upload from your mobile device.

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2. SurfEasy VPN

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If you haven’t noticed from previous articles, we really enjoy a good VPN (Virtual Private Network). Even better is when you can get access to a VPN on your mobile device for free. SurfEasy is a VPN service that gives you 500mb of data for free each month. There are of course paid plans that give you more access to data, but there are a few ways of earning free data set up by SurfEasy. Referring friends to SurfEasy is one way to gain more data. If you need more information on what a VPN is or how it works, check out this informative video made by CyberGhost.